1 This third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every matter be established.
2 I have declared beforehand, and I say beforehand as present the second time, and now absent, to those that have sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare.
3 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, (who is not weak towards you, but is powerful among you,
4 for if indeed he has been crucified in weakness, yet he lives by God's power; for indeed *we* are weak in him, but we shall live with him by God's power towards you,)
5 examine your own selves if ye be in the faith; prove your own selves: do ye not recognise yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless indeed ye be reprobates?
6 Now I hope that ye will know that *we* are not reprobates.
7 But we pray to God that ye may do nothing evil; not that *we* may appear approved, but that *ye* may do what is right, and *we* be as reprobates.
8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
9 For we rejoice when *we* may be weak and *ye* may be powerful. But this also we pray for, your perfecting.
10 On this account I write these things being absent, that being present I may not use severity according to the authority which the Lord has given me for building up, and not for overthrowing.
11 For the rest, brethren, rejoice; be perfected; be encouraged; be of one mind; be at peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
12 Salute one another with a holy kiss.
13 All the saints salute you.
14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, {be} with you all.
1 这是我第三次到你们那里去， 各样事情必须凭两三个证人的口， 才能确定。
2 我第二次到你们那里去的时候说过， 现今不在你们那里， 再预先对那些从前犯了罪的和其余的人说： 我若再来， 必不宽容，
3 因为你们在找基督借着我说话的凭据。基督对你们不是软弱的， 相反地， 在你们身上是有能力的。
4 他因着软弱被钉死了， 却靠着 神的大能活着。我们在他里面也是软弱的， 但靠着 神向你们所显的大能， 也必与他一同活着。
5 你们应当察验自己是不是持守着信仰， 也应当考验自己。难道不晓得基督耶稣是在你们里面吗？（除非你们是经不起考验的人。）
6 我盼望你们晓得， 我们不是经不起考验的人。
7 我们祈求 神， 使你们不作什么恶事。这并不是要显明我们是经得起考验的， 而是要你们行善； 我们呢， 就让我们作经不起考验的人好了！
8 我们不能作什么事违背真理， 只能维护真理。
9 当我们软弱、你们刚强的时候， 我们就欢喜； 我们所求的， 就是要你们完全。
10 因此， 我趁着不在你们那里的时候， 把这些话写给你们， 到我来了， 就不必凭着主所给我的权柄严厉地对待你们。这权柄不是要拆毁你们， 而是要建立你们。
11 最后， 弟兄们， 你们要喜乐， 要完全， 要受安慰， 要同心， 要和睦。这样， 施慈爱赐平安的 神必与你们同在。
12 你们要用圣洁的亲嘴彼此问安。
13 众圣徒都问候你们。
14 愿主耶稣基督的恩惠， 神的慈爱， 圣灵的契通， 常与你们众人同在。