This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.
the third. See on.
2 Corinthians 12:14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not …
In.
Numbers 35:30 Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the …
Deuteronomy 17:6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that …
Deuteronomy 19:15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or …
1 Kings 21:10,13 And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against …
Matthew 18:16 But if he will not hear you, then take with you one or two more…
Matthew 26:60,61 But found none: yes, though many false witnesses came, yet found …
John 8:17,18 It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true…
Hebrews 10:28,29 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses…
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:
told.
2 Corinthians 1:23 Moreover I call God for a record on my soul, that to spare you I …
2 Corinthians 10:1,2,8-11 Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, …
2 Corinthians 12:20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, …
1 Corinthians 4:19-21 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, …
1 Corinthians 5:5 To deliver such an one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, …
being.
2 Corinthians 13:10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I …
heretofore.
2 Corinthians 12:21 And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and …
Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.
ye seek.
2 Corinthians 10:8-10 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the …
Christ.
2 Corinthians 2:10 To whom you forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any …
Matthew 10:20 For it is not you that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaks in you.
Matthew 18:18-20 Truly I say to you, Whatever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven…
Luke 21:15 For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries …
1 Corinthians 5:4,5 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, …
which.
2 Corinthians 2:6 Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.
2 Corinthians 3:1-3 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, …
2 Corinthians 12:12 Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all patience, …
1 Corinthians 9:1-3 Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ …
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.
he was.
Luke 22:43,44 And there appeared an angel to him from heaven, strengthening him…
John 10:18 No man takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power …
1 Corinthians 15:43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; …
Philippians 2:7,8 But made himself of no reputation, and took on him the form of a …
Hebrews 5:7 Who in the days of his flesh…
1 Peter 3:18 For Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, …
yet.
Acts 2:36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God has …
Acts 4:10-12 Be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by …
Romans 6:4,9,10 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like …
Romans 14:9 For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he …
Ephesians 1:19-23 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, …
Philippians 2:9-11 Why God also has highly exalted him, and given him a name which is …
1 Peter 3:18,22 For Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, …
Revelation 1:17,18 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right …
we also.
2 Corinthians 4:7-12 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency …
2 Corinthians 10:3,4,10 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh…
1 Corinthians 2:3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
in him. or, with him.
Philippians 3:10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship …
2 Timothy 2:11,12 It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also …
but.
Acts 3:16 And his name through faith in his name has made this man strong, …
Romans 6:8-11 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him…
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?
Examine.
Psalm 17:3 You have proved my heart; you have visited me in the night; you have …
Psalm 26:2 Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
Psalm 119:59 I thought on my ways, and turned my feet to your testimonies.
Psalm 139:23,24 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts…
Lamentations 3:40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
Ezekiel 18:28 Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions …
Haggai 1:5,7 Now therefore thus said the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways…
1 Corinthians 11:28,31 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, …
Galatians 6:4 But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing …
Hebrews 4:1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering …
Hebrews 12:15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any …
1 John 3:20,21 For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knows …
Revelation 2:5 Remember therefore from where you are fallen, and repent, and do …
Revelation 3:2,3 Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready …
in the faith.
Colossians 1:23 If you continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved …
Colossians 2:7 Rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as you …
1 Timothy 2:15 Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue …
Titus 1:13 This witness is true. Why rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound …
Titus 2:2 That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in …
1 Peter 5:9 Whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions …
Know.
1 Corinthians 3:16 Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit …
1 Corinthians 6:2,15,19 Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the …
1 Corinthians 9:24 Know you not that they which run in a race run all, but one receives …
James 4:4 You adulterers and adulteresses, know you not that the friendship …
Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 6:16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? for you are …
John 6:56 He that eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, dwells in me, and I in him.
John 14:23 Jesus answered and said to him, If a man love me, he will keep my …
John 15:4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, …
John 17:23,26 I in them, and you in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and …
Romans 8:10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the …
Galatians 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ …
Galatians 4:19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ …
Ephesians 2:20-22 And are built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus …
Ephesians 3:17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that you, being rooted …
Colossians 1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of …
Colossians 2:19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and …
1 Peter 2:4,5 To whom coming, as to a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but …
reprobates.
2 Corinthians 13:6,7 But I trust that you shall know that we are not reprobates…
Jeremiah 6:30 Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD has rejected them.
Romans 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God …
2 Timothy 3:8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist …
Titus 1:16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being …
1 Corinthians 9:27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that …
Hebrews 6:8 But that which bears thorns and briers is rejected, and is near to …
But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
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.
I pray.
2 Corinthians 13:9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and you are strong: and this also …
1 Chronicles 4:10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that you would …
Matthew 6:13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For your …
John 17:15 I pray not that you should take them out of the world, but that you …
Philippians 1:9-11 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge …
1 Thessalonians 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly…
2 Timothy 4:18 And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve …
approved.
2 Corinthians 6:4 But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in …
2 Corinthians 10:18 For not he that commends himself is approved, but whom the Lord commends.
Romans 16:10 Salute Apelles approved in Christ. Salute them which are of Aristobulus' …
1 Corinthians 11:19 For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved …
2 Timothy 2:15 Study to show yourself approved to God, a workman that needs not …
James 1:12 Blessed is the man that endures temptation: for when he is tried, …
honest.
2 Corinthians 8:21 Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but …
Romans 12:17 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the …
Romans 13:13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, …
Philippians 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are …
1 Timothy 2:2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a …
1 Peter 2:12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas …
as reprobates.
2 Corinthians 6:8,9 By honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, …
2 Corinthians 10:10 For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily …
1 Corinthians 4:9-13 For I think that God has set forth us the apostles last, as it were …
For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
2 Corinthians 13:10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I …
2 Corinthians 10:8 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the …
Numbers 16:28-35 And Moses said, Hereby you shall know that the LORD has sent me to …
1 Kings 22:28 And Micaiah said, If you return at all in peace, the LORD has not …
2 Kings 1:9-13 Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And …
2 Kings 2:23-25 And he went up from there to Bethel: and as he was going up by the …
Proverbs 21:30 There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.
Proverbs 26:2 As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse …
Mark 9:39 But Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there is no man which shall do …
Mark 16:17-19 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall …
Luke 9:49-56 And John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting out devils …
Acts 4:28-30 For to do whatever your hand and your counsel determined before to be done…
Acts 5:1-11 But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession…
Acts 13:3-12 And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, …
Acts 19:11-17 And God worked special miracles by the hands of Paul…
1 Corinthians 5:4,5 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, …
1 Timothy 1:20 Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered to Satan, …
Hebrews 2:3,4 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the …
For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.
when.
2 Corinthians 13:8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
2 Corinthians 11:30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern my infirmities.
2 Corinthians 12:5-10 Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but …
1 Corinthians 4:10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are …
even.
2 Corinthians 13:7,11 Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we should appear …
2 Corinthians 7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves …
Ephesians 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge …
Philippians 3:12-15 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: …
Colossians 1:28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all …
Colossians 4:12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always …
1 Thessalonians 3:10 Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and …
2 Timothy 3:17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished to all good works.
Hebrews 6:1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us …
Hebrews 12:23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written …
Hebrews 13:21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you …
1 Peter 5:10 But the God of all grace, who has called us to his eternal glory …
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.
I write.
2 Corinthians 2:3 And I wrote this same to you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow …
2 Corinthians 10:2 But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with …
2 Corinthians 12:20,21 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, …
1 Corinthians 4:21 What will you? shall I come to you with a rod, or in love, and in …
lest. See on ver.
2 Corinthians 13:2,8 I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time…
Titus 1:13 This witness is true. Why rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound …
according.
2 Corinthians 10:8 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the …
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.
farewell.
Luke 9:61 And another also said, Lord, I will follow you; but let me first …
Acts 15:29 That you abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and …
Acts 18:21 But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast …
Acts 23:30 And when it was told me how that the Jews laid wait for the man, …
Philippians 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.
1 Thessalonians 5:16 Rejoice ever more.
Be perfect.
2 Corinthians 13:9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and you are strong: and this also …
Matthew 5:48 Be you therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
John 17:23 I in them, and you in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and …
James 1:4 But let patience have her perfect work, that you may be perfect and …
1 Peter 5:10 But the God of all grace, who has called us to his eternal glory …
be of good.
2 Corinthians 1:4 Who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort …
Mark 10:49 And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called. And they call …
Romans 15:13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, …
1 Thessalonians 4:18 Why comfort one another with these words.
2 Thessalonians 2:16,17 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which …
be of one.
Romans 12:16,18 Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but …
Romans 15:5,6 Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be like minded …
1 Corinthians 1:10 Now I beseech you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, …
Ephesians 4:3 Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Philippians 1:27 Only let your conversation be as it becomes the gospel of Christ: …
Philippians 2:1-3 If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of …
Philippians 3:16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the …
Philippians 4:2 I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same …
1 Peter 3:8 Finally, be you all of one mind, having compassion one of another, …
live.
Genesis 37:4 And when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all …
Genesis 45:24 So he sent his brothers away, and they departed: and he said to them, …
Mark 9:50 Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltiness, with which …
Romans 12:18 If it be possible, as much as lies in you, live peaceably with all men.
Romans 14:19 Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and …
1 Thessalonians 5:13 And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And …
2 Timothy 2:22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, …
Hebrews 12:14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall …
James 3:17,18 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, …
1 Peter 3:11 Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
the God.
Romans 15:33 Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
Romans 16:20 And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. …
Philippians 4:9 Those things, which you have both learned, and received, and heard, …
1 Thessalonians 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly…
Hebrews 13:20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, …
1 John 4:8-16 He that loves not knows not God; for God is love…
with.
2 Corinthians 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the …
Matthew 1:23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, …
2 Thessalonians 3:16 Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. …
Revelation 22:21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
Greet one another with an holy kiss.
All the saints salute you.
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 grace.
Numbers 6:23-27 Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, On this wise you shall bless …
Matthew 28:19 Go you therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name …
John 1:16,17 And of his fullness have all we received, and grace for grace…
See on
Romans 1:7 To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace …
Romans 16:20,24 And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. …
1 Corinthians 16:23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
Revelation 1:4,5 John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be to you, and …
the love.
Romans 5:5 And hope makes not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad …
Romans 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate …
Ephesians 6:23 Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father …
1 John 3:16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life …
Jude 1:21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our …
the communion.
John 4:10,14 Jesus answered and said to her, If you knew the gift of God, and …
John 7:38 He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly …
John 14:15-17 If you love me, keep my commandments…
Romans 8:9,14-17 But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the …
1 Corinthians 3:16 Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit …
1 Corinthians 6:19 What? know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost …
1 Corinthians 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be …
Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, …
Ephesians 2:18,22 For through him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father…
Ephesians 5:9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
Philippians 2:1 If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of …
1 John 1:3 That which we have seen and heard declare we to you, that you also …
1 John 3:24 And he that keeps his commandments dwells in him, and he in him. …
Amen. See on
Matthew 6:13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For your …
Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatever I have commanded you: …
Romans 16:20,27 And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. …
1 Corinthians 14:16 Else when you shall bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupies …
CONCLUDING REMARKS ON THE SECOND EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS
The most remarkable circumstance in this Epistle, observes Mr. Scott, is the confidence of the Apostle in the goodness of his cause, and in the power of God to bear him out in it. Opposed as he then was by a powerful and sagacious party, whose authority, reputation, and interest were deeply concerned, and who were ready to seize on every thing that could discredit him, it is wonderful to hear him so firmly insist upon his apostolical authority, and so unreservedly appeal to the miraculous power which he has exercised and conferred at Corinth. So far from shrinking from the contest, as afraid of some discovery being made, unfavourable to him and the common cause, he, with great modesty and meekness indeed, but with equal boldness and decision, expressly declares that his opposers and despisers were the ministers of Satan, and menaces them with miraculous judgments, when as many of their deluded hearers had been brought to repentance and re-established in the faith, as proper means could in a reasonable time effect. It is inconceivable that a stronger internal testimony, not only of integrity, but of divine inspiration, can exist. Had there been any thing of imposture among the Christians, it was next to impossible but such a conduct must have occasioned a disclosure of it. Of the effects produced by this latter epistle we have no circumstantial account; for the journey which Said. Paul took to Corinth, after he had written it, is mentioned by Said. Luke only in a few words, (Ac.
