◄ 2 Corinthians 13:3 ►
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Good News Translation
You will have all the proof you want that Christ speaks through me. When he deals with you, he is not weak; instead, he shows his power among you.

New Revised Standard Version
since you desire proof that Christ is speaking in me. He is not weak in dealing with you, but is powerful in you.

Contemporary English Version
This should prove to you that I am speaking for Christ. When he corrects you, he won't be weak. He will be powerful!

New American Bible
since you are looking for proof of Christ speaking in me. He is not weak toward you but powerful in you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Do you seek a proof of Christ that speaketh in me, who towards you is not weak, but is mighty in you?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Do you seek a proof of Christ that speaketh in me, who towards you is not weak, but is mighty in you?

ye seek.

2 Corinthians 10:8-10 For if also I should boast somewhat more of our power, which the Lord hath given us unto edification and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed. . . .

Christ.

2 Corinthians 2:10 And to whom you have pardoned any thing, I also. For, what I have pardoned, if I have pardoned any thing, for your sakes have I done it in the person of Christ:

Matthew 10:20 For it is not you that speak, but the spirit of your Father that speaketh in you.

Matthew 18:18-20 Amen I say to you, whatsoever you shall bind upon earth, shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever you shall loose upon earth, shall be loosed also in heaven. . . .

Luke 21:15 For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to resist and gainsay.

1 Corinthians 5:4,5 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus: . . .

which.

2 Corinthians 2:6 To him who is such a one, this rebuke is sufficient, which is given by many.

2 Corinthians 3:1-3 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need (as some do) epistles of commendation to you, or from you? . . .

2 Corinthians 12:12 Yet the signs of my apostleship have been wrought on you, in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty deeds.

1 Corinthians 9:1-3 Am I not I free? Am not I an apostle? Have not I seen Christ Jesus our Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord? . . .

Context
Examine Yourselves
…2I have told before and foretell, as present and now absent, to them that sinned before and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare. 3Do you seek a proof of Christ that speaketh in me, who towards you is not weak, but is mighty in you? 4For although he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him: but we shall live with him by the power of God towards you.…
Cross References
Matthew 10:20
For it is not you that speak, but the spirit of your Father that speaketh in you.

1 Corinthians 5:4
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus:

1 Corinthians 7:40
But more blessed shall she be, if she so remain, according to my counsel. And I think that I also have the spirit of God.

2 Corinthians 9:8
And God is able to make all grace abound in you: that ye always, having all sufficiently in all things, may abound to every good work,

2 Corinthians 10:1
Now I Paul, myself beseech you, by the mildness and modesty of Christ: who in presence indeed am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.

2 Corinthians 10:4
For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty to God, unto the pulling down of fortifications, destroying counsels,

2 Corinthians 10:10
(For his epistles indeed, say they, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak and his speech contemptible):

2 Corinthians 13:2
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