2 Corinthians 13 WYC
Summary: Announcing this will be his third visit, Paul warns that he will not spare those who sinned and have not repented, and urges the Corinthians to "examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith" (v. 5), testing whether Christ is truly in them. He hopes they will pass the test and prove his own ministry genuine, and prays for their restoration even if it means he appears weak by comparison. The letter closes with an exhortation to aim for restoration, comfort, agreement, and peace, a call to greet one another with a holy kiss, and the well-known benediction: "the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all" (v. 14).
1Lo! this thridde tyme Y come to you, and in the mouth of tweyne or of thre witnessis euery word schal stonde.
2Y seide bifor, and seie bifor, as present twies, and now absent, to hem that bifor han synned, and to alle othere; for if Y come eftsoone, Y schal not spare.
3Whether ye seken the preef of that Crist, that spekith in me, which is not feble in you?
4For thouy he was crucified of infirmyte, but he lyueth of the vertu of God. For also we ben sijk in hym, but we schulen lyue with him of the vertu of God in vs.
5Asaie you silf, if ye ben in the feith; ye you silf preue. Whether ye knowen not you silf, for Crist Jhesu is in you? but in happe ye ben repreuable.
6But Y hope, that ye knowen, that we ben not repreuable.
7And we preien the Lord, that ye do no thing of yuel; not that we seme preued, but that ye do that that is good, and that we ben as repreuable.
8For we moun no thing ayens treuthe, but for the treuthe.
9For we ioyen, whanne we ben sijk, but ye ben myyti; and we preien this thing, youre perfeccioun.
10Therfor Y absent write these thingis, that Y present do not hardere, bi the powere, which the Lord yaf to me in to edificacioun, and not in to youre distruccioun.
11Britheren, `hennus forward ioye ye, be ye perfit, excite ye; vndurstonde ye the same thing; haue ye pees, and God of pees and of loue schal be with you.
12Grete ye wel togidere in hooli cos. Alle hooli men greten you wel.
13The grace of oure Lord Jhesu Crist, and the charite of God, and the comynyng of the Hooli Gost, be with `you alle. Amen.
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