Help QuickNav Adv. Options
AMP

AMP

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Format by: Verse Paragraph
Strong's
Red Letter
Audio Bibles
The Blue Letter Bible

2 Corinthians 13 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

Choose a new font size and typeface
Audio Bibles

Examine Yourselves

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 13:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:1 -

This is the third time that I am visiting you. EVERY FACT SHALL BE SUSTAINED and CONFIRMED BY THE TESTIMONY OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 13:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:2 - I have already warned those who have sinned in the past and all the rest as well, and I warn them now even though I am absent [from you] as I did when I was with you the second time, that if I come back I will not spare anyone,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 13:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:3 - since you seek [forensic] proof that Christ is speaking in and through me. He is not weak or ineffective in dealing with you, but powerful within you.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 13:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:4 - For even though He was crucified in weakness [yielding Himself], yet He lives [resurrected] by the power of God [His Father]. For we too are weak in Him [as He was humanly weak], yet we are alive and well [in fellowship] with Him because of the power of God directed toward you.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 13:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:5 -

Test and evaluate yourselves to see whether you are in the faith and living your lives as [committed] believers. Examine yourselves [not me]! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves [by an ongoing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you fail the test and are rejected as counterfeit?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 13:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:6 - But I hope you will acknowledge that we do not fail the test nor are we to be rejected.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 13:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:7 - But I pray to God that you may do nothing wrong. Not so that we [and our teaching] may appear to be approved, but that you may continue doing what is right, even though we [by comparison] may seem to have failed.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 13:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:8 - For we can do nothing against the truth, but only for the truth [and the gospel—the good news of salvation].

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 13:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:9 - We are glad when we are weak [since God’s power comes freely through us], but you [by comparison] are strong. We also pray for this, that you be made complete [fully restored, growing and maturing in godly character and spirit—pleasing your heavenly Father by the life you live].

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 13:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:10 - For this reason I am writing these things while absent from you, so that when I come, I will not need to deal severely [with you], in my use of the authority which the Lord has given me [to be used] for building you up and not for tearing you down.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 13:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:11 -

Finally, believers, rejoice! Be made complete [be what you should be], be comforted, be like-minded, live in peace [enjoy the spiritual well-being experienced by believers who walk closely with God]; and the God of love and peace [the source of lovingkindness] will be with you.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 13:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:12 - Greet one another with a [fn]holy kiss.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 13:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:13 - All [fn]God’s people greet you.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 13:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:14 -

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

See the AMP Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
AMP Footnotes
A traditional greeting in biblical times, much like today’s handshake and hug.
Lit the saints.
AMP

Amplified Bible Copyright (c) 2015 by

The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, CA 90631 All rights reserved.

For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org.

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
AMP
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
AMP
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

Translations available: King James Version, New King James Version, New Living Translation, New International Version, English Standard Version, Christian Standard Bible, New American Standard Bible 2020, New American Standard Bible 1995, Legacy Standard Bible 2021, New English Translation, Revised Standard Version, American Standard Version, Young's Literal Translation, Darby Translation, Webster's Bible, Hebrew Names Version, Reina-Valera 1960, Latin Vulgate, Westminster Leningrad Codex, Septuagint, Morphological Greek New Testament, and Textus Receptus.