Study Desk

Be trying, yourselves, whether ye are in the faith, be putting, yourselves, to the test! Or do ye not recognise yourselves, seeing that, Jesus Christ, is in you, - unless perhaps ye fail in the testing.

I hope, however, that ye shall come to know, that, we, fail not in the testing!

But we pray unto God, that ye may do nothing base, - not that, we, may appear, accepted, but that, ye, the honourable thing, may be doing, even though, we, should be, as it were, rejected;

For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth;

For we rejoice - whensoever, we, are weak, and, ye, are, strong. This, also we pray for - your restoration: -

For this cause, these things, while absent, am I writing, that I may not, when present, deal sharply - according to the authority which, the Lord, hath given me, for building up and not for pulling down.