Therefore I write, &c.— Dr. Heylin translates this passage very well from 2 Corinthians 13:5. Try yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; bring yourselves to the proof. Are you so little acquainted with yourselves, as not to know whether Jesus Christ be in you? Unless indeed you have no proofs of it, 2 Corinthians 13:6. But I trust that you shall be convinced that we are not without such proof, 2 Corinthians 13:7. Now I pray God that I may not inflict any evil [punishment] upon you, and so my proofs may not be produced, [and this we ask of God for your sakes,] that ye may do what is right, although we thereby shall appear as not having the proofs [we threaten you with], 2 Corinthians 13:8. For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth, 2 Corinthians 13:9. And therefore it is matter of joy to us, when we are thus disarmed by the strength of your integrity. And this is what I pray for, even your perfection, 2 Corinthians 13:10. These things therefore I write to you, being absent, that when I come, I may not use severity, according to the power which the Lord hath given me, for edification, and not for destruction.
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2 Corinthians 13:10
10 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.