2 Corinthians

The second epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians, chapter 13, Vulgate and King James Version

Chapter 13 Vulgate

   1 Ecce tertio hoc venio ad vos; in ore duorum vel trium testium stabit omne verbum.
   2 Praedixi et praedico, ut praesens bis et nunc absens his, qui ante peccaverunt, et ceteris omnibus, quoniam, si venero iterum, non parcam,
   3 quoniam experimentum quaeritis eius, qui in me loquitur, Christi, qui in vos non infirmatur, sed potens est in vobis.
   4 Nam etsi crucifixus est ex infirmitate, sed vivit ex virtute Dei. Nam et nos infirmi sumus in illo, sed vivemus cum eo ex virtute Dei in vos.
   5 Vosmetipsos tentate, si estis in fide; ipsi vos probate. An non cognoscitis vos ipsos, quia Iesus Christus in vobis est? Nisi forte reprobi estis.
   6 Spero autem quod cognoscetis quia nos non sumus reprobi.
   7 Oramus autem Deum, ut nihil mali faciatis, non ut nos probati pareamus, sed ut vos, quod bonum est, faciatis, nos autem ut reprobi simus.
   8 Non enim possumus aliquid adversus veritatem, sed pro veritate.
   9 Gaudemus enim, quando nos infirmi sumus, vos autem potentes estis; hoc et oramus, vestram consummationem.
   10 Ideo haec absens scribo, ut non praesens durius agam secundum potestatem, quam Dominus dedit mihi in aedificationem et non in destructionem.
   11 De cetero, fratres, gaudete, perfecti estote, exhortamini invicem, idem sapite, pacem habete, et Deus dilectionis et pacis erit vobiscum.
   12 Salutate invicem in osculo sancto. Salutant vos sancti omnes.
   13 Gratia Domini Iesu Christi et caritas Dei et communicatio Sancti Spiritus cum omnibus vobis.

King James Version

   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.
   The second epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi, a city of Macedonia, by Titus and Lucas.