2 Corinthians 13:5

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KJV King James Version

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?

BSB Berean Standard Bible

Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you fail the test?

WEB World English Bible

Test your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

ASV American Standard Version

Try your own selves, whether ye are in the faith; prove your own selves. Or know ye not as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? unless indeed ye be reprobate.

YLT Young’s Literal Translation

Your own selves try ye, if ye are in the faith; your own selves prove ye; do ye not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, if ye be not in some respect disapproved of?

Surrounding context — 2 Corinthians 13

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.

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Lamentations 3:40Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.1 Corinthians 11:28But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of [that] bread, and drink of [that] cup.Psalm 139:23-24Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:1 Corinthians 9:27But I keep under my body, and bring [it] into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.Revelation 2:5Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.Galatians 6:4But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.1 Corinthians 11:31For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.Hebrews 12:15Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and thereby many be defiled;John 14:23Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.Galatians 2:20I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.Psalm 26:2Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.Titus 1:16They profess that they know God; but in works they deny [him], being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.Romans 8:10And if Christ [be] in you, the body [is] dead because of sin; but the Spirit [is] life because of righteousness.Psalm 119:59I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.Revelation 3:2-3Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.Haggai 1:7Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.Hebrews 4:1Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left [us] of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.1 Corinthians 9:24Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

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