2 Corinthians 13:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 13

⁵Examine 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?

2 Corinthians 13:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lamentations 3:40
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
1 Corinthians 11:28
But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
Psalms 139:23-24
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: …
1 Corinthians 9:27
But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Revelation 2:5
Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-6)

In these verses observe, I. The apostle threatens to be severe against obstinate sinners when he should come to Corinth, having now sent to them a first and second epistle, with proper admonitions and exhortations, in order to reform what was amiss among them. Concerning this we may notice, 1. The caution with which he proceeded in his censures: he was not hasty in using severity, but gave a first…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. Examine--Greek, “Try (make trial of) yourselves.” prove your own selves--This should be your first aim, rather than “seeking a proof of Christ speaking in me” (2Co 13:3). your own selves--I need not speak much in proof of Christ being in me, your minister (2Co 13:3), for if ye try your own selves ye will see that Christ is also in you [Chrysostom], (Ro 8:10). Finding Christ dwelling in yourselv…