{"id":6662,"date":"2020-07-23T05:15:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T10:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/?p=6662"},"modified":"2020-07-22T21:18:29","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T02:18:29","slug":"2-corinthians-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/?p=6662","title":{"rendered":"2 Corinthians 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the third time I am coming to you. Every charge must be established\u00a0by the evidence of two or three witnesses.\u00a0<strong><sup>2\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>I warned\u00a0those who sinned before and all the others, and I warn them now while absent, as I did when present on my second visit, that\u00a0if I come again I will not spare them\u2014\u00a0<strong><sup>3\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>since you seek proof that Christ\u00a0is speaking in me. He is not weak in dealing with you, but\u00a0is powerful among you.\u00a0<strong><sup>4\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>For\u00a0he was crucified in weakness, but\u00a0lives by the power of God. For\u00a0we also are weak in him, but in dealing with you\u00a0we will live with him by the power of God.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIt would seem that in their immaturity the Corinthians were unimpressed by Christlike gentleness and meekness\u2026 but were overawed by arbitrary displays of power.\u201d (Harris)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul wanted to be like Jesus and show meekness and we should strive to do the same. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><sup>\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><sup>5\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith.\u00a0Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that\u00a0Jesus Christ is in you?\u2014unless indeed you fail to meet the test!\u00a0<strong><sup>6\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>I hope you will find out that we have not failed the test.\u00a0<strong><sup>7\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>But we pray to God that you may not do wrong\u2014not that we may appear to have met the test, but that you may do what is right, though we may seem to have failed.\u00a0<strong><sup>8\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.\u00a0<strong><sup>9\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>For we are glad when\u00a0we are weak and you are strong. Your\u00a0restoration is what we pray for.\u00a0<strong><sup>10\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>For this reason I write these things while I am away from you, that when I come\u00a0I may not have to be\u00a0severe in my use of\u00a0the authority that the Lord has given me for building up and not for tearing down.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We need to see fruit in our life. We need to stay focused and spend time in prayer on striving to be like Jesus. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Final Greetings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><sup>11\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>Finally, brothers,<sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=2%20Corinthians+13&amp;version=ESV#fen-ESV-29038a\">a<\/a>]<\/sup>\u00a0rejoice.\u00a0Aim for restoration, comfort one another,<sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=2%20Corinthians+13&amp;version=ESV#fen-ESV-29038b\">b<\/a>]<\/sup>\u00a0agree with one another,\u00a0live in peace; and the God of love and\u00a0peace will be with you.\u00a0<strong><sup>12\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>Greet one another with a holy kiss.\u00a0<strong><sup>13\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>All the saints greet you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":1168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6663,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6662\/revisions\/6663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}