| 1 | This third time do I come unto you; on the mouth of two witnesses or three shall every saying be established; |
| 2 | I have said before, and I say [it] before, as being present, the second time, and being absent, now, do I write to those having sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare, |
| 3 | since a proof ye seek of the Christ speaking in me, who to you is not infirm, but is powerful in you, |
| 4 | for even if he was crucified from infirmity, yet he doth live from the power of God; for we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him from the power of God toward you. |
| 5 | Your ownselves try ye, if ye are in the faith; your ownselves prove ye; do ye not know your ownselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, if ye be not in some respect disapproved of? |
| 6 | and I hope that ye shall know that we—we are not disapproved of; |
| 7 | and I pray before God that ye do no evil, not that we may appear approved, but that ye may do that which is right, and we may be as disapproved; |
| 8 | for we are not able to do anything against the truth, but for the truth; |
| 9 | for we rejoice when we may be infirm, and ye may be powerful; and this also we pray for—your perfection! |
| 10 | because of this, these things—being absent—I write, that being present, I may not treat [any] sharply, according to the authority that the Lord did give me for building up, and not for casting down. |
| 11 | Henceforth, brethren, rejoice; be made perfect, be comforted, be of the same mind, be at peace, and the God of the love and peace shall be with you; |
| 12 | salute one another in an holy kiss; |
| 13 | salute you do all the saints; |
| 14 | the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, [is] with you all! Amen. |