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Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you fail the test?

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?

But I expect that you will realize that we ourselves do not fail the test.

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

Now we pray to God that you do nothing wrong; not so that we ourselves may appear approved, but that you may do what is right, though we may appear unapproved.

Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.

For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.

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

For we rejoice when we ourselves are weak, but you are strong; this we also pray for, that you become mature.

For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.

For this reason I am writing these things while absent, so that when present I need not use severity, in accordance with the authority which the Lord gave me for building up and not for tearing down.

Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.