2 Corinthians 13:6

Amplified Bible

But I hope you will acknowledge that we do not fail the test nor are we to be rejected.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
And I hope you will recognize that we ourselves do not fail the test.

King James Version (1611)
But I trust that yee shall knowe that we are not reprobates.

King James Version
But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.

English Standard Version
I hope you will find out that we have not failed the test.

New American Standard Bible
But I expect that you will realize that we ourselves do not fail the test.

New Century Version
But I hope you will see that we ourselves have not failed the test.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
But I trust that you will realize that we ourselves do not fail the test.

Legacy Standard Bible
But I hope that you will realize that we ourselves do not fail the test.

Berean Standard Bible
And I hope you will realize that we have not failed the test.

Contemporary English Version
I hope you will discover that we have not failed.

Complete Jewish Bible
But I hope you will realize that we are not failures.

Darby Translation
Now I hope that ye will know that *we* are not reprobates.

Easy-to-Read Version
But I hope you will see that we have not failed the test.

Geneva Bible (1587)
But I trust that ye shall knowe that wee are not reprobates.

George Lamsa Translation
But I trust that you shall know that we are not rejected.

Good News Translation
I trust you will know that we are not failures.

Lexham English Bible
And I hope that you will recognize that we are not unqualified!

Literal Translation
And I hope you will know that we are not disapproved.

American Standard Version
But I hope that ye shall know that we are not reprobate.

Bible in Basic English
But it is my hope that you will have no doubt that we are truly Christ's.

Hebrew Names Version
But I hope that you will know that we aren't disqualified.

International Standard Version
I hope you will realize that we haven't failed our test.

Etheridge Translation
But I trust you will know that we are not reprobate.

Murdock Translation
But, I trust, ye will know that we are not reprobates.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
I trust ye shal knowe that we are not reprobates.

English Revised Version
But I hope that ye shall know that we are not reprobate.

World English Bible
But I hope that you will know that we aren't disqualified.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And I trust, ye shall know, that we are not reprobates.

Weymouth's New Testament
But I trust that you will recognize that we are not insincere.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But Y hope, that ye knowen, that we ben not repreuable.

Update Bible Version
But I hope that you shall know that we are not reprobate.

Webster's Bible Translation
But I trust that ye will know that we are not reprobates.

New English Translation
And I hope that you will realize that we have not failed the test!

New King James Version
But I trust that you will know that we are not disqualified.

New Living Translation
As you test yourselves, I hope you will recognize that we have not failed the test of apostolic authority.

New Life Bible
I trust you see that we belong to Him and have passed the test.

New Revised Standard
I hope you will find out that we have not failed.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I hope, however, that ye shall come to know, that, we, fail not in the testing!

Douay-Rheims Bible
But I trust that you shall know that we are not reprobates.

Revised Standard Version
I hope you will find out that we have not failed.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
I trust that ye shall knowe yt we are not castawayes.

Young's Literal Translation
and I hope that ye shall know that we -- we are not disapproved of;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But I trust ye knowe, yt we are not cast awayes.

Mace New Testament (1729)
I trust you shall know that we are not so destitute,

Simplified Cowboy Version
While you reflect on your own lives, notice that we have not failed the test. Jesus does live in us and our actions prove it.

Contextual Overview

¹This is the third time that I am visiting you. EVERY FACT SHALL BE SUSTAINED and CONFIRMED BY THE TESTIMONY OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES. ²I have already warned those who have sinned in the past and all the rest as well, and I warn them now even though I am absent [from you] as I did when I was with you the second time, that if I come back I will not spare anyone, ³since you seek [forensic] proof that Christ is speaking in and through me. He is not weak or ineffective in dealing with you, but powerful within you. ⁴For even though He was crucified in weakness [yielding Himself], yet He lives [resurrected] by the power of God [His Father]. For we too are weak in Him [as He was humanly weak], yet we are alive and well [in fellowship] with Him because of the power of God directed toward you. ⁵Test and evaluate yourselves to see whether you are in the faith and living your lives as [committed] believers. Examine yourselves [not me]! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves [by an ongoing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you fail the test and are rejected as counterfeit? ⁶But I hope you will acknowledge that we do not fail the test nor are we to be rejected.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

2 Corinthians 13:3, 2 Corinthians 13:4, 2 Corinthians 13:10, 2 Corinthians 12:20

Reciprocal: 1 Corinthians 9:27 - a castaway 2 Corinthians 1:13 - than 2 Corinthians 13:5 - reprobates 2 Timothy 3:8 - reprobate

Cross-References

Genesis 13:6
Now the land was not able to support them [that is, sustain all their grazing and water needs] while they lived near one another, for their possessions were too great for them to stay together.

Genesis 13:7
And there was strife and quarreling between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle. Now the Canaanite and the Perizzite were living in the land at that same time [making grazing of the livestock difficult].

Genesis 13:10
So Lot looked and saw that the valley of the Jordan was well watered everywhere—this was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah; [it was all] like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar [at the south end of the Dead Sea].

Genesis 13:11
Then Lot chose for himself all the valley of the Jordan, and he traveled east. So they separated from each other.

Genesis 13:17
"Arise, walk (make a thorough reconnaissance) around in the land, through its length and its width, for I will give it to you."

Genesis 13:18
Then Abram broke camp and moved his tent, and came and settled by the [grove of the great] terebinths (oak trees) of Mamre [the Amorite], which are in Hebron, and there he built an altar to [honor] the LORD.

1 Timothy 6:9
But those who [are not financially ethical and] crave to get rich [with a compulsive, greedy longing for wealth] fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction [leading to personal misery].

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But I trust that ye shall know,.... Whether they were reprobates or not, the apostle would not pretend to say; that he left to themselves, and of which they were capable of making judgment for themselves: however, he hoped and believed, that he and his fellow apostles would give such proof of themselves, as that they should know certainly

that we, says he,

are not reprobates; men void of judgment in the doctrines of the Gospel, but have light, knowledge, and understanding in them; or useless and unprofitable in the ministry, but were the savour of life unto life to many; were ministers by whom others believed; were successful labourers in the Lord's vineyard, and builders in his house; and were made very useful for the conversion, comfort, and edification of many souls: or that they were not men disapproved either by God, or his people; since as they faithfully served Christ in the ministration of the Gospel, they were acceptable to God, and approved of men: or were not men without a proof of Christ speaking in them; they might assure themselves they would have too soon, for some of them, an evidence of that power and authority which Christ had lodged in them, to punish such as repented not of their evils.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But I trust ... - The sense of this verse is,” Whatever may be the result of your examination of yourselves, I trust (Greek I hope) you will not find us false and to be rejected; that is, I trust you will find in me evidence that I am commissioned by the Lord Jesus to be his apostle.” The idea is, that they would find when he was among them, that he was endowed with all the qualifications needful to confer a claim to the apostolic office.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Corinthians 13:6. Ye shall know that we are not reprobates. — Ye have had, and ye shall have, the fullest proof that I have preached the true faith among you; and that God has confirmed it by his testimony; and thus that I am proved and manifested to be what I ought to be, and shown to be approved of God.