1This is the third time I am coming to you; "Every rhema(spoken-utterance) must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses."
2I have previously said when present the second time, and though now absent I say in advance to those who have sinned in the past and to all the rest as well, that if I come again I will not spare anyone,
3since you are seeking for proof of the Messiah(Christ) who speaks in me, and who is not weak toward you, but is powerful in you.
4For indeed He was crucified because of weakness, yet He lives because of the dynamis(power) of God; for we also are weak in Him, yet we will live with Him because of the dynamis(power) of God directed toward you.
5Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; dokimazete(verify, test and approve) yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Yeshua(Jesus) Messiah(Christ) is in you — unless indeed you are adokimoi(unapproved, unverified)?
6But I trust that you will realize that we ourselves are not adokimoi(unapproved, unverified).
7Now we pray to God that you do no wrong; not that we ourselves may appear dokimoi(approved, verified), but that you may do what is right, even though we may appear adokimoi(unapproved, unverified).
8For we can do nothing against the aletheia(truth), but only for the aletheia(truth).
9For we rejoice when we ourselves are weak but you are strong; this we also pray for, that you be made complete.
10For this reason I am writing these things while absent, so that when present I need not use severity, in accordance with the exousia(authority) which the Lord gave me for building up and not for tearing down.
11Finally, brothers, rejoice, be made complete, be comforted, be like-minded, live in eirene(peace); and the God of agape(love) and eirene(peace) will be with you.
12Greet one another with a hagio(holy) kiss.
13All the hagioi(holy ones) greet you.
14The charis(grace) of the Lord Yeshua(Jesus) Messiah(Christ), and the agape(love) of God, and the koinonia(fellowship, participation) of the hagio(holy) pneuma(spirit), be with you all. Amen.