1 This is the third time I am coming to you.
       In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall
       every word be established.
        2 I told you before, and foretell you, as if I
       were present, the second time; and being absent
       now I write to them which heretofore have
       sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again,
       I will not spare:
        3 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in
       me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty
       in you.
        4 For though he was crucified through weakness,
       yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also
       are weak in him, but we shall live with him by
       the power of God toward you.
        5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the
       faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your
       own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you,
       except ye be reprobates?
        6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are
       not reprobates.
        7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not
       that we should appear approved, but that ye
       should do that which is honest, though we be as
       reprobates.
        8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but
       for the truth.
        9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are
       strong: and this also we wish, even your
       perfection.
       10 Therefore I write these things being absent,
       lest being present I should use sharpness,
       according to the power which the Lord hath given
       me to edification, and not to destruction.
       11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be
       of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace;
       and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
       12 Greet one another with an holy kiss.
       13 All the saints salute you.
       14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the
       love of God, and the communion of the Holy
       Ghost, be with you all. Amen.