13:1 This [is] the third [time] I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.
13:2 I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:
13:3 Since you seek a proof of Mashiach speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.
13:4 For though he was impaled through weakness, yet he lives by the power of Elohim (אלהים). For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of Elohim (אלהים) toward you.
13:5 Examine yourselves, whether you be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know you not your own selves, how that Yehoshua (יהושע) Mashiach is in you, except you be reprobates?
13:6 But I trust that you shall know that we are not reprobates.
13:7 Now I pray to Elohim (אלהים) that you do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that you should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.
13:8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
13:9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and you are strong: and this also we wish, [even] your perfection.
13:10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which Adonay has given me to edification, and not to destruction.
13:11 Finally, Achim, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in shalom; and the Elohim (אלהים) of love and shalom shall be with you.
13:12 Bid you one another shalom with an neshikat hakodesh (set apart kiss).
13:13 All the set apart ones salute you.
13:14 The grace of Adonay Yehoshua (יהושע) Mashiach, and the love of Elohim (אלהים), and the communion of the Ruach HaKodesh, [be] with you all. Amein.
[The second letters to the Korintos was written from Philippi, a city of Macedonia, by Titos and Lukas.]