2 Corinthians 13:4

2 Corinthians 13:4

2 ^aI have told you before, and foretell as if I were present the second time, and now being absent¹ I write to those ^bwho have sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again ^cI will not spare—

3 since you seek a proof of Christ ^aspeaking in me, who is not weak toward you, but mighty ^bin you.

4 ^aFor though He was crucified in weakness, yet ^bHe lives by the power of God. For ^cwe also are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by the power of God toward you.

5 Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, ^athat Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you¹ are ^bdisqualified.

6 But I trust that you will know that we are not disqualified.

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7 Now¹ I pray to God that you do no evil, not that we should appear approved, but that you should do what is honorable, though ^awe may seem disqualified.

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

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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though—omitted in some of the oldest manuscripts; then translate, "For He was even crucified," etc.

through weakness—Greek, "from weakness"; that is, His assumption of our weakness was the source, or necessary condition, from which the possibility of His crucifixion flowed (Hebrews 2:14; Philippians 2:7-8).

by—Greek, "from"; "owing to."

the power of God—the Father (Romans 1:4; Romans 6:4; Ephesians 1:20).

weak in him—that is, in virtue of our union with Him, and after His pattern, weakness predominates in us for a time (exhibited in our "infirmities" and weak "bodily presence," II Corinthians 10:10; II Corinthians 12:5, II Corinthians 12:9-10; and also in our not putting into immediate exercise our power of punishing offenders, just as Christ for a time kept in abeyance His power).

we shall live with him—not only hereafter with Him, free from our present infirmities, in the resurrection life (Philippians 3:21), but presently in the exercise of our apostolic authority against offenders, which flows to us in respect to you from the power of God, however "weak" we now seem to you. "With Him," that is, even as He now exercises His power in His glorified resurrection life, after His weakness for a time.

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