{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/dbt/2-corinthians/13","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T07:16:56.254Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"2 Corinthians","bookSlug":"2-corinthians","chapter":13,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":12,"nextChapter":null,"totalChapters":13,"totalVerses":14},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"This third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every matter be established."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"I have declared beforehand, and I say beforehand as present the second time, and now absent, to those that have sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, (who is not weak towards you, but is powerful among you,"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"for if indeed he has been crucified in weakness, yet he lives by God's power; for indeed we are weak in him, but we shall live with him by God's power towards you,)"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"examine your own selves if ye be in the faith; prove your own selves: do ye not recognise yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless indeed ye be reprobates?"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Now I hope that ye will know that we are not reprobates."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"But we pray to God that ye may do nothing evil; not that we may appear approved, but that ye may do what is right, and we be as reprobates."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"For we rejoice when we may be weak and ye may be powerful. But this also we pray for, your perfecting."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"On this account I write these things being absent, that being present I may not use severity according to the authority which the Lord has given me for building up, and not for overthrowing."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"For the rest, brethren, rejoice; be perfected; be encouraged; be of one mind; be at peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Salute one another with a holy kiss."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"All the saints salute you."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God,  and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all."}],"citation":{"inline":"2 Corinthians 13 (DBT)","markdown":"[2 Corinthians 13](https://primebible.com/dbt/2-corinthians/13)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/2-corinthians/13 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}