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Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you—unless, of course, you fail the test? <a href="/nlt/2_corinthians/13.htm">New Living Translation</a> Examine yourselves to see if your faith is genuine. Test yourselves. Surely you know that Jesus Christ is among you; if not, you have failed the test of genuine faith. <a href="/esv/2_corinthians/13.htm">English Standard Version</a> Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test! <a href="/bsb/2_corinthians/13.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you fail the test? <a href="/blb/2_corinthians/13.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a> Examine yourselves whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Or do you not recognize yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are unapproved? <a href="/kjv/2_corinthians/13.htm">King James Bible</a> Examine 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? <a href="/nkjv/2_corinthians/13.htm">New King James Version</a> Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified. <a href="/nasb_/2_corinthians/13.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you fail the test? <a href="/nasb/2_corinthians/13.htm">NASB 1995</a> Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you— unless indeed you fail the test? <a href="/nasb77/2_corinthians/13.htm">NASB 1977 </a> Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you fail the test? <a href="/lsb/2_corinthians/13.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize about yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you fail the test? <a href="/amp/2_corinthians/13.htm">Amplified Bible</a> Test and evaluate yourselves to see whether you are in the faith and living your lives as [committed] believers. Examine yourselves [not me]! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves [by an ongoing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you fail the test and are rejected as counterfeit? <a href="/csb/2_corinthians/13.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith. Examine yourselves. Or do you yourselves not recognize that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless you fail the test. <a href="/hcsb/2_corinthians/13.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith. Examine yourselves. Or do you yourselves not recognize that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless you fail the test. <a href="/asv/2_corinthians/13.htm">American Standard Version</a> Try your own selves, whether ye are in the faith; prove your own selves. Or know ye not as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? unless indeed ye be reprobate. <a href="/cev/2_corinthians/13.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> Test yourselves and find out if you really are true to your faith. If you pass the test, you will discover that Christ is living in you. But if Christ isn't living in you, you have failed. <a href="/erv/2_corinthians/13.htm">English Revised Version</a> Try your own selves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Or know ye not as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? unless indeed ye be reprobate. <a href="/gwt/2_corinthians/13.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> Examine yourselves to see whether you are still in the Christian faith. Test yourselves! Don't you recognize that you are people in whom Jesus Christ lives? Could it be that you're failing the test? <a href="/gnt/2_corinthians/13.htm">Good News Translation</a> Put yourselves to the test and judge yourselves, to find out whether you are living in faith. Surely you know that Christ Jesus is in you?--unless you have completely failed. <a href="/isv/2_corinthians/13.htm">International Standard Version</a> Keep examining yourselves to see whether you are continuing in the faith. Test yourselves! You know, don't you, that Jesus the Messiah lives in you? Could it be that you are failing the test? <a href="/msb/2_corinthians/13.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you?unless you actually fail the test? <a href="/net/2_corinthians/13.htm">NET Bible</a> Put yourselves to the test to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize regarding yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you--unless, indeed, you fail the test! <a href="/nheb/2_corinthians/13.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> Test your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or do you not know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?--unless indeed you are disqualified. <a href="/wbt/2_corinthians/13.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> Examine yourselves, whether ye are in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye are reprobates? <a href="/wey/2_corinthians/13.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> Test yourselves to discover whether you are true believers: put your own selves under examination. Or do you not know that Jesus Christ is within you, unless you are insincere? <a href="/web/2_corinthians/13.htm">World English Bible</a> Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/2_corinthians/13.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> Try yourselves, if you are in the faith; prove yourselves; do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, if you are not disapproved of in some respect? <a href="/blb/2_corinthians/13.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a> Examine yourselves whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Or do you not recognize yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are unapproved? <a href="/ylt/2_corinthians/13.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> Your own selves try ye, if ye are in the faith; your own selves prove ye; do ye not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, if ye be not in some respect disapproved of? <a href="/slt/2_corinthians/13.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> Try yourselves, if ye are in the faith; prove yourselves. Or know ye not yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless ye are not tried?<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/2_corinthians/13.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> Try your own selves if you be in the faith; prove ye yourselves. Know you not your own selves, that Christ Jesus is in you, unless perhaps you be reprobates? <a href="/cpdv/2_corinthians/13.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> Test yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Examine yourselves. Or do you yourselves not know whether Christ Jesus is in you? But perhaps you are reprobates. <a href="/nabre/2_corinthians/13.htm">New American Bible</a> Examine yourselves to see whether you are living in faith. Test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless, of course, you fail the test. <a href="/nrsvce/2_corinthians/13.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> Examine yourselves to see whether you are living in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless, indeed, you fail to meet the test!<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/2_corinthians/13.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> Examine yourselves, whether you are in the same faith; heal your souls. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is among you? If this is not so, then you are rejected. <a href="/aramaic-plain-english/2_corinthians/13.htm">Aramaic Bible in Plain English</a> Examine your souls, whether you stand in the faith. Tend to your souls, or are you not aware that Yeshua The Messiah is in you, and that if not, you are worthless?<div class="vheading2">NT Translations</div><a href="/anderson/2_corinthians/13.htm">Anderson New Testament</a> Make trial of yourselves, whether you are in the faith; put yourselves to the proof. Do you not know your own selves, that Christ Jesus is in you? unless you be without proof.<CM> <a href="/godbey/2_corinthians/13.htm">Godbey New Testament</a> Prove your own selves, if you are in the faith; examine yourselves; whether do you not know yourselves, that Christ Jesus is in you? unless indeed you are reprobates. <a href="/haweis/2_corinthians/13.htm">Haweis New Testament</a> Examine yourselves, whether ye are in the faith; prove your ownselves: know ye not your ownselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobate? <a href="/mace/2_corinthians/13.htm">Mace New Testament</a> Examine yourselves, whether you 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? but if you are destitute of proofs, <a href="/wey/2_corinthians/13.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> Test yourselves to discover whether you are true believers: put your own selves under examination. Or do you not know that Jesus Christ is within you, unless you are insincere? <a href="/worrell/2_corinthians/13.htm">Worrell New Testament</a> Try yourselves, whether ye are in the faith; prove yourselves. Or know ye not as to yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless ye be rejected? <a href="/worsley/2_corinthians/13.htm">Worsley New Testament</a> Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove yourselves: do ye not know yourselves to be such that Jesus Christ is in you? unless ye are reprovable. <a href="/parallel/2_corinthians/13-5.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ddheG4hMg28?start=2481" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/2_corinthians/13.htm">Examine Yourselves</a> …4For He was indeed crucified in weakness, yet He lives by God’s power. And though we are weak in Him, yet by God’s power we will live with Him to serve you. 5<a href="/greek/3985.htm" title="3985: peirazete (V-PMA-2P) -- To try, tempt, test. From peira; to test, i.e. Endeavor, scrutinize, entice, discipline.">Examine</a> <a href="/greek/1438.htm" title="1438: Heautous (RefPro-AM3P) -- Himself, herself, itself. ">yourselves to see</a> <a href="/greek/1487.htm" title="1487: ei (Conj) -- If. A primary particle of conditionality; if, whether, that, etc.">whether</a> <a href="/greek/1510.htm" title="1510: este (V-PIA-2P) -- I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.">you are</a> <a href="/greek/1722.htm" title="1722: en (Prep) -- In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; in, at, on, by, etc.">in</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: tē (Art-DFS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.">the</a> <a href="/greek/4102.htm" title="4102: pistei (N-DFS) -- Faith, belief, trust, confidence; fidelity, faithfulness. ">faith;</a> <a href="/greek/1381.htm" title="1381: dokimazete (V-PMA-2P) -- From dokimos; to test; by implication, to approve.">test</a> <a href="/greek/1438.htm" title="1438: heautous (RefPro-AM3P) -- Himself, herself, itself. ">yourselves.</a> <a href="/greek/2228.htm" title="2228: ē (Conj) -- Or, than. A primary particle of distinction between two connected terms; disjunctive, or; comparative, than."></a> <a href="/greek/3756.htm" title="3756: ouk (Adv) -- No, not. Also ouk, and ouch a primary word; the absolute negative adverb; no or not."></a> <a href="/greek/1921.htm" title="1921: epiginōskete (V-PIA-2P) -- From epi and ginosko; to know upon some mark, i.e. Recognize; by implication, to become fully acquainted with, to acknowledge.">Can’t you see</a> <a href="/greek/1438.htm" title="1438: heautous (RefPro-AM3P) -- Himself, herself, itself. ">for yourselves</a> <a href="/greek/3754.htm" title="3754: hoti (Conj) -- Neuter of hostis as conjunction; demonstrative, that; causative, because.">that</a> <a href="/greek/2424.htm" title="2424: Iēsous (N-NMS) -- Of Hebrew origin; Jesus, the name of our Lord and two other Israelites.">Jesus</a> <a href="/greek/5547.htm" title="5547: Christos (N-NMS) -- Anointed One; the Messiah, the Christ. From chrio; Anointed One, i.e. The Messiah, an epithet of Jesus.">Christ is</a> <a href="/greek/1722.htm" title="1722: en (Prep) -- In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; in, at, on, by, etc.">in</a> <a href="/greek/4771.htm" title="4771: hymin (PPro-D2P) -- You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.">you—</a> <a href="/greek/1487.htm" title="1487: ei (Conj) -- If. A primary particle of conditionality; if, whether, that, etc.">unless</a> <a href="/greek/1510.htm" title="1510: este (V-PIA-2P) -- I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.">you</a> <a href="/greek/3385.htm" title="3385: mēti (IntPrtcl) -- If not, unless, whether at all. From me and the neuter of tis; whether at all.">actually</a> <a href="/greek/96.htm" title="96: adokimoi (Adj-NMP) -- Failing to pass the test, unapproved, counterfeit. By implication, worthless.">fail the test?</a> 6And I hope you will realize that we have not failed the test.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/galatians/6-4.htm">Galatians 6:4</a> Each one should test his own work. Then he will have reason to boast in himself alone, and not in someone else. <a href="/1_corinthians/11-28.htm">1 Corinthians 11:28</a> Each one must examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup. <a href="/james/1-23.htm">James 1:23-24</a> For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror, / and after observing himself goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. <a href="/romans/8-10.htm">Romans 8:10</a> But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness. <a href="/philippians/2-12.htm">Philippians 2:12</a> Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling. <a href="/1_john/3-24.htm">1 John 3:24</a> Whoever keeps His commandments remains in God, and God in him. And by this we know that He remains in us: by the Spirit He has given us. <a href="/matthew/7-21.htm">Matthew 7:21-23</a> Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven. / Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ / Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’ <a href="/1_john/5-13.htm">1 John 5:13</a> I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life. <a href="/romans/6-16.htm">Romans 6:16</a> Do you not know that when you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, whether you are slaves to sin leading to death, or to obedience leading to righteousness? <a href="/1_john/2-3.htm">1 John 2:3-5</a> By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments. / If anyone says, “I know Him,” but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him. / But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him: <a href="/hebrews/3-12.htm">Hebrews 3:12</a> See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God. <a href="/1_peter/1-7.htm">1 Peter 1:7</a> so that the proven character of your faith—more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. <a href="/ephesians/3-17.htm">Ephesians 3:17</a> so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love, <a href="/colossians/1-27.htm">Colossians 1:27</a> To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. <a href="/1_timothy/1-19.htm">1 Timothy 1:19</a> holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and thereby shipwrecked their faith.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>Examine yourselves, whether you be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know you not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except you be reprobates?Examine.<a href="/psalms/17-3.htm">Psalm 17:3</a> Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.<a href="/psalms/26-2.htm">Psalm 26:2</a> Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.<a href="/psalms/119-59.htm">Psalm 119:59</a> I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.in the faith.<a href="/colossians/1-23.htm">Colossians 1:23</a> If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;<a href="/colossians/2-7.htm">Colossians 2:7</a> Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.<a href="/1_timothy/2-15.htm">1 Timothy 2:15</a> Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.Know.<a href="/1_corinthians/3-16.htm">1 Corinthians 3:16</a> Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?<a href="/1_corinthians/6-2.htm">1 Corinthians 6:2,15,19</a> Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? … <a href="/1_corinthians/9-24.htm">1 Corinthians 9:24</a> Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.Jesus Christ.<a href="/2_corinthians/6-16.htm">2 Corinthians 6:16</a> And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.<a href="/john/6-56.htm">John 6:56</a> He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.<a href="/john/14-23.htm">John 14:23</a> Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.reprobates.<a href="/2_corinthians/13-6.htm">2 Corinthians 13:6,7</a> But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates… <a href="/jeremiah/6-30.htm">Jeremiah 6:30</a> Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.<a href="/romans/1-28.htm">Romans 1:28</a> And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/1_corinthians/14-22.htm">Believers</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/13-3.htm">Christ</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/12-10.htm">Christ's</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/5-1.htm">Conscious</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/12-18.htm">Course</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/2-9.htm">Discover</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/9-27.htm">Disqualified</a> <a href="/acts/25-26.htm">Examination</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/11-28.htm">Examine</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/12-13.htm">Except</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/3-8.htm">Fail</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/10-15.htm">Faith</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/11-2.htm">Holding</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/13-4.htm">Indeed</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/13-6.htm">Insincere</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/11-31.htm">Jesus</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/16-4.htm">Meet</a> <a href="/luke/21-30.htm">Ownselves</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/8-8.htm">Prove</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/5-16.htm">Recognize</a> <a href="/romans/1-28.htm">Reprobate</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/13-7.htm">Reprobates</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/8-5.htm">Selves</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/9-13.htm">Test</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/13-4.htm">True.</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/5-11.htm">Try</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/12-13.htm">Unless</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/12-3.htm">Whether</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/10-13.htm">Within</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/12-14.htm">Yourselves</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/galatians/6-10.htm">Believers</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/13-14.htm">Christ</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/13-6.htm">Christ's</a> <a href="/ephesians/5-17.htm">Conscious</a> <a href="/galatians/4-23.htm">Course</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/13-6.htm">Discover</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/13-6.htm">Disqualified</a> <a href="/leviticus/13-8.htm">Examination</a> <a href="/galatians/6-4.htm">Examine</a> <a href="/galatians/1-7.htm">Except</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/13-6.htm">Fail</a> <a href="/galatians/1-23.htm">Faith</a> <a href="/philippians/2-16.htm">Holding</a> <a href="/galatians/2-7.htm">Indeed</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/13-6.htm">Insincere</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/13-14.htm">Jesus</a> <a href="/philippians/1-7.htm">Meet</a> <a href="/luke/21-30.htm">Ownselves</a> <a href="/galatians/2-18.htm">Prove</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/13-6.htm">Recognize</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/13-6.htm">Reprobate</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/13-6.htm">Reprobates</a> <a href="/1_thessalonians/2-8.htm">Selves</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/13-6.htm">Test</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/13-8.htm">True.</a> <a href="/galatians/6-12.htm">Try</a> <a href="/2_thessalonians/2-3.htm">Unless</a> <a href="/galatians/2-6.htm">Whether</a> <a href="/galatians/1-16.htm">Within</a> <a href="/galatians/3-27.htm">Yourselves</a><div class="vheading2">2 Corinthians 13</div>1. <a href="/2_corinthians/13-1.htm">Paul threatens severity, and the power of his apostleship, against obstinate sinners.</a> 5. <a href="/2_corinthians/13-5.htm">And, advising them to a trial of their faith,</a> 7. <a href="/2_corinthians/13-7.htm">and to a reformation of their sins before his coming,</a> 11. <a href="/2_corinthians/13-11.htm">he concludes his epistle with a general exhortation and a prayer.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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This phrase calls for self-reflection and introspection among believers. In the context of 2 Corinthians, Paul is addressing a church that has been influenced by false apostles and is questioning his authority. The call to "examine yourselves" is a challenge to the Corinthians to assess their own spiritual condition and authenticity of their faith. This self-examination is a recurring biblical theme, seen in passages like <a href="/lamentations/3-40.htm">Lamentations 3:40</a> and <a href="/psalms/139-23.htm">Psalm 139:23-24</a>, where believers are encouraged to search their hearts and align with God's truth. The phrase implies a personal responsibility to ensure one's beliefs and actions align with the teachings of Christ.test yourselves. The concept of testing oneself is akin to the process of refining metals, where impurities are removed to reveal the true quality. In a spiritual sense, this involves evaluating one's life against the standards of the Gospel. The Greek word used here for "test" (dokimazo) suggests proving or approving something after examination. This is not a superficial test but a deep, honest assessment of one's faith and relationship with God. The idea is echoed in <a href="/1_corinthians/11-28.htm">1 Corinthians 11:28</a>, where believers are instructed to examine themselves before partaking in the Lord's Supper, ensuring they are in right standing with God.Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you— This phrase emphasizes the indwelling presence of Christ in believers, a fundamental tenet of Christian doctrine. The indwelling of Christ is a mystery revealed in the New Testament, signifying a profound union between Christ and the believer. This concept is supported by passages such as <a href="/galatians/2-20.htm">Galatians 2:20</a> and <a href="/colossians/1-27.htm">Colossians 1:27</a>, which speak of Christ living in believers and being the hope of glory. The presence of Christ within is both a source of spiritual strength and a standard for living a life that reflects His character and teachings.unless you fail the test? The possibility of failing the test serves as a sobering warning. It suggests that not all who profess faith may truly possess it. This echoes the warnings found in other scriptures, such as <a href="/matthew/7-21.htm">Matthew 7:21-23</a>, where Jesus speaks of those who outwardly perform religious acts but lack a genuine relationship with Him. The phrase implies that true faith will manifest in a life transformed by Christ's presence. The test is not merely about doctrinal correctness but about the evidence of Christ's life and power at work within the believer.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/p/paul_the_apostle.htm">Paul the Apostle</a> The author of 2 Corinthians, addressing the church in Corinth with pastoral concern and apostolic authority. 2. <a href="/topical/t/the_corinthian_church.htm">The Corinthian Church</a> The recipients of the letter, a diverse and often troubled congregation in the city of Corinth, known for its moral and spiritual challenges. 3. <a href="/topical/j/jesus_christ.htm">Jesus Christ</a> Central to the faith and the one in whom believers are to find their identity and assurance. 4. <a href="/topical/s/self-examination.htm">Self-examination</a> The process Paul urges the Corinthians to undertake, reflecting on their faith and relationship with Christ. 5. <a href="/topical/f/faith.htm">Faith</a> The core subject of examination, referring to the genuine belief and trust in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_self-examination.htm">The Importance of Self-Examination</a> Regular self-examination is crucial for spiritual growth and assurance of faith. It helps believers identify areas needing repentance and growth. <a href="/topical/t/testing_the_authenticity_of_faith.htm">Testing the Authenticity of Faith</a> Believers are called to test their faith to ensure it is genuine and rooted in Christ. This involves evaluating beliefs, actions, and motivations. <a href="/topical/c/christ_in_you--the_assurance_of_salvation.htm">Christ in You: The Assurance of Salvation</a> The presence of Christ in a believer’s life is the ultimate assurance of salvation. This indwelling should be evident through the fruit of the Spirit. <a href="/topical/a/avoiding_spiritual_complacency.htm">Avoiding Spiritual Complacency</a> Self-examination guards against complacency, prompting believers to remain vigilant and active in their faith journey. <a href="/topical/c/community_and_accountability.htm">Community and Accountability</a> While self-examination is personal, it is also beneficial to engage in community and accountability, allowing others to speak truth into our lives.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_2_corinthians_13.htm">Top 10 Lessons from 2 Corinthians 13</a> <a href="/q/are_you_aware_of_your_actions.htm">Are you paying attention to your own actions?</a> <a href="/q/are_you_self-examining_in_faith.htm">Are you examining yourself in faith and truth?</a> <a href="/q/can_faith_be_examined_objectively.htm">2 Corinthians 13:5 – Is there a way to objectively “examine” one’s faith without relying on personal and potentially biased spiritual experiences? </a> <a href="/q/how_do_internalism_and_externalism_differ.htm">How do internalism and externalism differ in philosophy?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/2_corinthians/13.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(5) Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves.--The position of "yourselves" in the Greek (before the verb in both clauses) shows that that is the word on which stress is emphatically laid, and the thought grows out of what had been said in <a href="/2_corinthians/13-3.htm" title="Since you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.">2Corinthians 13:3</a> : "You seek a test of my power. Apply a test to yourselves. Try yourselves whether you are living and moving in that faith in Christ which you profess" (the objective and subjective senses of faith melting into one without any formal distinction). "Subject yourselves to the scrutiny of your own conscience." The latter word had been used in a like sense in <a href="/1_corinthians/11-28.htm" title="But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.">1Corinthians 11:28</a>. So far as we can distinguish between it and the Greek for "examine," the one suggests the idea of a special test, the other a general scrutiny.How that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?--On the last word see Notes on <a href="/romans/1-28.htm" title="And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;">Romans 1:28</a>; <a href="/1_corinthians/9-27.htm" title="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.">1Corinthians 9:27</a>. Here its exact meaning is defined by the context as that of failing to pass the scrutiny to which he calls them: "Christ is in you" (the central thought of the Apostle's teaching; <a href="/galatians/1-16.htm" title="To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:">Galatians 1:16</a>; <a href="/ephesians/2-22.htm" title="In whom you also are built together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.">Ephesians 2:22</a>; <a href="/ephesians/3-17.htm" title="That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,">Ephesians 3:17</a>; <a href="/colossians/1-27.htm" title=" To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:">Colossians 1:27</a>), "unless the sentence, after an impartial scrutiny by yourselves, or by a judge gifted with spiritual discernment, is that there are no tokens of His presence." The ideas which Calvinistic theology has attached to the word "reprobate" are, it need hardly be said, foreign to the true meaning of the word, both here and elsewhere. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/2_corinthians/13.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 5. - Prove year ownselves. In other words, "test your own sincerity." Jesus Christ is in you. To this truth - that the body of every Christian is a temple of the Holy Spirit of Christ - St. Paul returns again and again (<a href="/galatians/2-20.htm">Galatians 2:20</a>; <a href="/galatians/4-19.htm">Galatians 4:19</a>; <a href="/ephesians/3-17.htm">Ephesians 3:17</a>; <a href="/colossians/1-27.htm">Colossians 1:27</a>). We find the same truth frequently in St. John (<a href="/john/15-4.htm">John 15:4, 5</a>; <a href="/1_john/3-24.htm">1 John 3:24</a>, etc.). Except ye be reprobates. The Greek word adokimoi - from the same root as the verb "to test" - means tried and found to be worthless. "Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them" (<a href="/jeremiah/6-30.htm">Jeremiah 6:30</a>). The word is found almost exclusively in St Paul (<a href="/2_corinthians/13-5.htm">2 Corinthians 13:5, 6, 7</a>; <a href="/romans/1-28.htm">Romans 1:28</a>; <a href="/1_corinthians/9-27.htm">1 Corinthians 9:27</a>; <a href="/2_timothy/3-8.htm">2 Timothy 3:8</a>; <a href="/titus/1-16.htm">Titus 1:16</a>). The only other passage of the New Testament where it occurs is <a href="/hebrews/6-8.htm">Hebrews 6:8</a>; and the reader must not read Calvinistic horrors into an expression which gives no sanction to them. <a href="/commentaries/2_corinthians/13-5.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Greek</div>Examine πειράζετε (peirazete) Verb - Present Imperative Active - 2nd Person Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_3985.htm">Strong's 3985: </a> To try, tempt, test. From peira; to test, i.e. Endeavor, scrutinize, entice, discipline. yourselves [to see] Ἑαυτοὺς (Heautous) Reflexive Pronoun - Accusative Masculine 3rd Person Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_1438.htm">Strong's 1438: </a> Himself, herself, itself. whether εἰ (ei) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_1487.htm">Strong's 1487: </a> If. A primary particle of conditionality; if, whether, that, etc. you are ἐστὲ (este) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_1510.htm">Strong's 1510: </a> I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist. in ἐν (en) Preposition <a href="/greek/strongs_1722.htm">Strong's 1722: </a> In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc. the τῇ (tē) Article - Dative Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. faith; πίστει (pistei) Noun - Dative Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_4102.htm">Strong's 4102: </a> Faith, belief, trust, confidence; fidelity, faithfulness. test δοκιμάζετε (dokimazete) Verb - Present Imperative Active - 2nd Person Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_1381.htm">Strong's 1381: </a> From dokimos; to test; by implication, to approve. yourselves. ἑαυτοὺς (heautous) Reflexive Pronoun - Accusative Masculine 3rd Person Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_1438.htm">Strong's 1438: </a> Himself, herself, itself. Can’t you see ἐπιγινώσκετε (epiginōskete) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_1921.htm">Strong's 1921: </a> From epi and ginosko; to know upon some mark, i.e. Recognize; by implication, to become fully acquainted with, to acknowledge. for yourselves ἑαυτοὺς (heautous) Reflexive Pronoun - Accusative Masculine 3rd Person Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_1438.htm">Strong's 1438: </a> Himself, herself, itself. that ὅτι (hoti) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_3754.htm">Strong's 3754: </a> Neuter of hostis as conjunction; demonstrative, that; causative, because. Jesus Ἰησοῦς (Iēsous) Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_2424.htm">Strong's 2424: </a> Of Hebrew origin; Jesus, the name of our Lord and two other Israelites. Christ [is] Χριστὸς (Christos) Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_5547.htm">Strong's 5547: </a> Anointed One; the Messiah, the Christ. From chrio; Anointed One, i.e. The Messiah, an epithet of Jesus. in ἐν (en) Preposition <a href="/greek/strongs_1722.htm">Strong's 1722: </a> In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc. you— ὑμῖν (hymin) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative 2nd Person Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_4771.htm">Strong's 4771: </a> You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou. unless εἰ (ei) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_1487.htm">Strong's 1487: </a> If. A primary particle of conditionality; if, whether, that, etc. you ἐστε (este) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_1510.htm">Strong's 1510: </a> I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist. actually μήτι (mēti) IntPrtcl <a href="/greek/strongs_3385.htm">Strong's 3385: </a> If not, unless, whether at all. From me and the neuter of tis; whether at all. fail the test? ἀδόκιμοί (adokimoi) Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_96.htm">Strong's 96: </a> Failing to pass the test, unapproved, counterfeit. 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