¹This third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two witnesses or three will every declaration be established.

²I have warned, and I warn, as being present the second time and being absent now, I am writing to those who have sinned before and to all the rest, that if I come to the same again I will not spare anyone.

³Since you seek a proof of the Anointed One speaking in me, who toward you is not weak but is powerful among you.

⁴And for if He was crucified in weakness, yet He lives by God's power; for also we ourselves are weak in Him, but we will live with Him by God's power toward you.

⁵Examine yourselves whether you are in the trust; test yourselves. Or do you not recognize yourselves, that Jesus the Anointed One is in you? — unless surely you are even failing!

⁶Now I hope that you will know that we ourselves are not unapproved.

⁷Now we pray to God to do you no wrong — not that we ourselves may appear approved, but that you yourselves may do what is right, though we ourselves may appear as unapproved.

⁸For we have no power for anything against the truth, but for the truth.

⁹For we rejoice when we ourselves may be weak, but you yourselves may be strong; and this also we pray for: your perfection.

¹⁰Therefore, because of these things, being absent, I write, so that being present I may not treat you with severity, according to the authority that the Lord has given me for building up and not for tearing down.

¹¹Finally, brothers, rejoice, be made complete, be encouraged, be of the same mind, be at peace; and the God of love and wholeness will be with you.

¹²Greet one another with a holy kiss. Greet all the holy ones.

¹³The favor of the Lord Jesus the Anointed One, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you. Amen. To the Corinthians the second was written from Philippi of Macedonia, through Titus and Luke.