2Co 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, except ye be reprobates?
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Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of {that} bread, and drink of {that} cup.
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
But 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.
Remember 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.
But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble {you}, and thereby many be defiled; {fail...; or, fall from}
Jesus 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.
I 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.
They profess that they know God; but in works they deny {him}, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate. {reprobate: or, void of judgment}
Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
And if Christ {be} in you, the body {is} dead because of sin; but the Spirit {is} life because of righteousness.
I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. {Consider...: Heb. Set your heart on your ways}
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left {us} of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. {Consider...: Heb. Set your heart on your ways}
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and {that} the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited {me} in the night; thou hast tried me, {and} shalt find nothing; I am purposed {that} my mouth shall not transgress.
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner {stone};
I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. {sober: or, vigilant}
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost {which is} in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare {it}: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he would do.
To whom God would make known what {is} the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: {in: or, among}
Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in {them}; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and {be} not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, {and} which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
But that which beareth thorns and briers {is} rejected, and {is} nigh unto cursing; whose end {is} to be burned.
Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
To whom coming, {as unto} a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, {and} precious,
Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make {them} the members of an harlot? God forbid.
And even as they did not like to retain God in {their} knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; {to retain: or, to acknowledge} {a reprobate...: or, a mind void of judgment or, an unapproving mind}
Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;
And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. {reprobate: or, of no judgment}
Reprobate silver shall {men} call them, because the LORD hath rejected them. {Reprobate...: or, Refuse silver}
I 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.
But 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.
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of {that} bread, and drink of {that} cup.
At that day ye shall know that I {am} in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. {Consider...: Heb. Set your heart on your ways}
There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof {are} the ways of death.
{Even} the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
And even as they did not like to retain God in {their} knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; {to retain: or, to acknowledge} {a reprobate...: or, a mind void of judgment or, an unapproving mind}
But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth {therein}, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. {deed: or, doing}
Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble {you}, and thereby many be defiled; {fail...; or, fall from}
For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you. {heresies: or, sects}
For if these things be in you, and abound, they make {you that ye shall} neither {be} barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. {barren: Gr. idle}
Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, {whether} the tender grape appear, {and} the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves. {appear: Heb. open}
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? {were: or, are}
And if Christ {be} in you, the body {is} dead because of sin; but the Spirit {is} life because of righteousness.
I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. {reprobate: or, of no judgment}
Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,