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Verse 2 Corinthians 13:5. _EXAMINE YOURSELVES, WHETHER YE BE IN THE
FAITH_] εαυτουςπειραζετε. _Try yourselves; pierce_
your hearts; _bore_ _yourselves throughout_; try yourselves by what I
have writte...
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EXAMINE YOURSELVES - see the note on 1 Corinthians 11:28. The
particular reason why Paul calls on them to examine themselves was,
that there was occasion to fear that many of them had been deceived.
S...
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4. STILL ABSENT - YET COMING. THE CONCLUSION.
CHAPTER 13
_ 1. Being Absent; Expecting to Come. (2 Corinthians 13:1 .)_
2. The Conclusion. (2 Corinthians 13:11 .)
He speaks in conclusion of his comi...
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WARNINGS IN VIEW OF A VISIT. This closing chapter starts from a vivid
realisation of that which is only too likely to be the situation when
he arrives for the third time. With increased emphasis, and...
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A WARNING, A WISH, A HOPE AND A BLESSING (2 Corinthians 13:1-14)
13 For the third time I am coming to you. Everything will be
established in the mouth of two or three witnesses. To those who have
alr...
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EXAMINE. Try. In John 6:6, prove,
WHETHER. if. App-118.
FAITH. Greek. _pistis._ App-160.
KNOW. Greek. _epiginosko._ App-132.
JESUS CHRIST. App-98.
EXCEPT = if (Greek. _ei._ App-118)... not (Greek...
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_Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own
selves_ The words rendered (1) _examine_and (2) _prove_have the sense
(1) of _testing_(the word is often translated _tempt_) and (2)
sub...
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1–10. The letter hastens to a conclusion. He reminds them, 1. what
they have to expect from him in this third visit (1–4); 2. what they
owe to themselves, seeing that their estimate of him and his tre...
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_ARE YOU TRUE TO YOUR FAITH 2 CORINTHIANS 13:5-7:_ Each Christian
should test himself to make sure that he is really true to the faith.
We need to know whether we can pass this test. As you examine yo...
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ΈΑΥΤΟΎΣ _асс. pl. от_ ΈΑΥΤΟΫ (G1438) меня
самого; "самих себя"
ΠΕΙΡΆΖΕΤΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΠΕΙΡΆΖΩ (G3985)
испытывать, исследовать; здесь:
"обнаруживать, какой ты человек" (BAGD;
Martin; TLNT;...
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DISCOURSE: 2047
SELF-EXAMINATION RECOMMENDED
2 Corinthians 13:5. _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,...
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EXAMINE YOURSELVES, &C.— "Instead therefore of your sitting in
judgment, and passing unrighteous censures upon us, as though there
were no proof of Christ's speaking in me, (2 Corinthians 13:3.) or in...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTS
SECTION 2
Maturation Through Self-Examination (2 Corinthians 13:5-10)
5 Examine yourselves, to see whether you are holding to your faith.
Test yourselves. Do you not realize that...
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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 - Greek, 'Try yourselves.'
P...
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14 What a fund of fatherly affection is revealed in his protest, "I am
not seeking _ yours _ but _ you_!" And it must have humbled them to
think of their own lack of care and consideration. They deser...
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13:5 yourselves, (g-19) 'Yourselves' is ambiguous in English; but it
is the accusative after 'recognize,' not 'yourselves know' but 'know
yourselves.'...
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The Apostle announces a third visit, and exhorts them to repentance.
He expresses his desire for their growth in grace.
PARAPHRASE. '(1) This is the third visit I am about to pay you. On
this occasio...
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GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK
2 CORINTHIANS
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 13
V1 This will be my third visit to you. If you accuse anyone, two or
three witnesses must speak in evidence. V2 I said t...
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EXAMINE YOURSELVES, WHETHER YE BE IN THE FAITH; PROVE YOUR OWN SELVES.
— The position of “yourselves” in the Greek (before the verb in
both clauses) shows that that is the word on which stress is
emph...
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CHAPTER 28
CONCLUSION.
2 Corinthians 13:1 (R.V)
THE first part of this chapter is in close connection with what
precedes; it is, so to speak, the explanation of St. Paul's fear 2
Corinthians 12:20 t...
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2 Corinthians 13:1-10.
IF HE COMES AGAIN, HE WILL NOT SPARE: CHRIST IS HIS STRENGTH: LET THE
CORINTHIANS SEE TO IT THAT HE BE THEIRS ALSO....
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“PROVE YOUR OWN SELVES”
2 Corinthians 13:1
Once more Paul refers to the charge that his ministry was
characterized by weakness. This deeply wounded him. He admitted that
in his personal appearance a...
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In view of his intention to visit them again the apostle urged them to
personal examination. They were to test themselves, and to prove
themselves whether they were in the faith. The reason for his ap...
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VERSE 5 Paul challenges them to test themselves as Christians, just as
they had tested him as an apostle. Jesus would be in them if they were
obedient (John 1423). To be reprobate, they would have to...
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(2) 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?
(2) He confirms that which he spoke a...
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Try your ownselves if you be in the faith. [1] He does not mean if
they have a right Christian faith or belief, but either whether they
had a saving Christian faith working in them by charity, or as S...
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(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 tha...
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2 Corinthians 1:1-24. It is impossible to read the two epistles to the
Corinthians with the smallest care without perceiving the strong
contrast between the wounded tone of the first epistle (the hear...
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_PERSONAL EXPERIENCE_
‘Examine yourselves, … prove your own selves.’
2 Corinthians 13:5
Nothing unusual in this advice, but something very remarkable in
purpose for which it is given by St. Paul. H...
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5._Try yourselves. _He confirms, what he had stated previously —
that Christ’s power showed itself openly in his ministry. For he
makes them the judges of this matter, provided they descend, as it
wer...
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_ Commentary for this Chapter is probably included in the next or
previous Chapter s._...
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EXAMINE YOURSELVES WHETHER YE BE IN THE FAITH,.... These words are to
be considered in connection with 2 Corinthians 13:3 for seeing they
sought and demanded a proof the voice and power of Christ in t...
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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?
Ver. 5. _Examine yourselves_] The final t...
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_Examine yourselves_, &c. You examine and try me, but let me admonish
you to turn the search into your own hearts, that ye may know, with
certainty, _whether ye be in the faith_ Whether ye possess tru...
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WHETHER YE BE IN THE FAITH; whether you have heartily believed on
Jesus Christ.
IS IN YOU; by his Spirit, authority, and likeness.
EXCEPT YE BE REPROBATES; except your faith is dead, your hopes vain...
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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?...
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It is essential that Paul should repeat that this was the third time
he was coming to them. Such emphasis was needed to awaken proper
exercise. For the second time he had not come, in order to spare t...
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1-6 Though it is God's gracious method to bear long with sinners, yet
he will not bear always; at length he will come, and will not spare
those who remain obstinate and impenitent. Christ at his cruc...
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OLBGrk;
EXAMINE YOURSELVES: it is most commonly seen, that those who are most
busy to desire or inquire after _a proof of Christ_ in others, are
tardiest in making an inquiry after Christ's being in t...
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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....
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Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book III
them in according to His will. "Know ye not yourselves," says the
apostle, "that Christ Jesus is in you? "[32]...
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2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine G3985 (G5720) yourselves G1438 whether
G1487 are G2075 (G5748) in G1722 faith G4102 Test G1381 (G5720)
yourselves G1438 G2228 Do G1921 not G3756 know G1921 (G5719)
yourselve...
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‘Try your own selves, whether you are in the faith; prove your own
selves. Or know you not as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in
you? unless indeed you are reprobate (failing the test).'
But...
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2 Corinthians 13:5. TRY YOUR OWN SELVES: ‘Ye talk of trying me, but
ye do well to try your own selves,' WHETHER YE BE IN THE FAITH or are
Christians in name only; PROVE YOUR OWN SELVES. WHAT? [1] KNOW...
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UNLESS INDEED YE BE REPROBATE
(ε μητ αδοκιμο εστε). Paul challenged his opposers in
Corinth to try (πειραζετε) themselves, to test
(δοκιμαζετε) themselves, whether they were "in the faith"
(εν τη π...
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2 Corinthians 13:5
I. All Jewish history, the Apostle had told the Corinthians, was an
ensample to them, upon whom the ends of the world had come. They were
as liable to forget the new and better cove...
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CONTENTS: Closing exhortations of Paul to the Corinthians.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul.
CONCLUSION: The great burden of God's faithful representatives is that
the Gospel they preach m...
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2 Corinthians 13:1. _This is the third time I am coming to you._
Compare the following texts. Acts 18:1; Acts 20:2; Acts 21:13. The
difficulty here is removed by the admission, that his second coming...
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PUT YOURSELVES TO THE TEST. "You have tested me! Now put yourselves to
the test! Measure yourself by the Good News, and see if you are really
following what Christ taught! Does He approve of the sin i...
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2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 13:5 The TEST to SEE if CHRIST
IS IN the Corinthians will be their response to Paul and his call to
repent. God’s message and the messenger are one (2 Corinthians
5...
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CHAPTER 13
SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER
i. There were some at Corinth who had abandoned themselves to
impurity, others who were proud and contentious (xi. 20, 21), others
given to other sins, and dispose...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
2 Corinthians 13:1.—[Good paraphrase, exhibiting connection of
thought, from Stanley: “Once, twice, thrice, as in the Mosaic Law of
the three witnesses; by my first visit—by this Epis...
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CONCLUDING APPEALS AND EXHORTATIONS,
EXPOSITION
2 CORINTHIANS 13:1
THIS IS THE THIRD TIME I AM COMING TO YOU. I have thrice formed the
intention, though the second time I had to forego my plan (2
C...
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Now he said,
This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or
three witnesses shall every word be established. [For] I told you
before, and foretell you [I'm telling you again], as i...
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1 Corinthians 11:28; 1 Corinthians 11:31; 1 Corinthians 3:16; 1
Corinthians 6:15; 1 Corinthians 6:19; 1 Corinthians 6:2; 1 Corinthians
9:24; 1 Corinthians 9:27;...
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Examine yourselves [ε α υ τ ο υ ς π ε ι ρ α ζ ε τ ε].
Yourselves is emphatic. Instead of putting Christ to the test, test
yourselves. Rev., try, is better than examine. Examination does not
necessaril...
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Prove yourselves — Whether ye are such as can, or such as cannot,
bear the test — This is the proper meaning of the word which we
translate, reprobates. Know ye not yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in...
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Here the apostle advises the Corinthians, instead of inquiring after
the proof of Christ in him, to examine whether they were in Christ
themselves; intimating to us, that such are usually most backwar...