2 CORINTHIANS 13:5 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“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?”
Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you — unless, of course, you fail the test? — Paul turns the *tables*: the Corinthians must *dokimázō*, examine/test, themselves. Is Christ *en hymîn*, in you? The *conditional* (*ei mēti*) is *devastating*: *failure* would mean absence of Christ. Self-examination precedes apostolic judgment.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 13:5
“Try your own selves, whether ye be in the faith, prove your own selves. Do you not know as to your own selves, that Christ is in you, unless indeed ye be reprobate? But I hope that you shall know that we are not reprobate.” For since by what he has said he has shown that even if he does not punish, it is not because he has not Christ in himself, but because he intimates His long-suffering, Who was crucified and yet avenged not Himself; he again, in another manner, produces…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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