2 Corinthians 13:5

Paul turns the test back on the Corinthians, urging them to examine whether they themselves are in the faith and whether Christ is in them. It matters because genuine faith should be self-evident in a transformed life.

Cross-references · 40

• Lam 3:40Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.
• 1 Cor 11:28Each one must examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup.
• Ps 139:23–24Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.
• 1 Cor 9:27No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
• Rev 2:5Therefore, keep in mind how far you have fallen. Repent and perform the deeds you did at first. But if you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.
• Gal 6:4Each one should test his own work. Then he will have reason to boast in himself alone, and not in someone else.
• 1 Cor 11:31Now if we judged ourselves properly, we would not come under judgment.
• Heb 12:15See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many.
• John 14:23Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.
• Ps 26:2Test me, O LORD, and try me; examine my heart and mind.
• Gal 2:20I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
• Titus 1:16They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.
• Rom 8:10But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.
• Ps 119:59I considered my ways and turned my steps to Your testimonies.
• Rev 3:2–3Wake up and strengthen what remains, which was about to die; for I have found your deeds incomplete in the sight of My God.
• Hag 1:7This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
• Heb 4:1Therefore, while the promise of entering His rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be deemed to have fallen short of it.
• 1 Cor 9:24Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize.
• Hag 1:5Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
• 1 Cor 3:16Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
• Ps 17:3You have tried my heart; You have visited me in the night. You have tested me and found no evil; I have resolved not to sin with my mouth.
• John 15:4Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me.
• Eph 2:20–22built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.
• John 17:23I in them and You in Me—that they may be perfectly united, so that the world may know that You sent Me and have loved them just as You have loved Me.
• Titus 2:2Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, and sound in faith, love, and perseverance.
• Jas 4:4You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.
• 1 Cor 6:19Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
• Eph 3:17so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love,
• John 17:26And I have made Your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love You have for Me may be in them, and I in them.”
• Gal 4:19My children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,
• John 6:6But He was asking this to test him, for He knew what He was about to do.
• Col 1:27To 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.
• John 6:56Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood remains in Me, and I in him.
• Col 2:7rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
• 1 Cor 6:2Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases?
• 2 Cor 6:16What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”
• Col 1:23if indeed you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope of the gospel you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.
• 1 Jn 3:20–21Even if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and He knows all things.
• Heb 6:8But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned.
• 1 Pet 5:9Resist him, standing firm in your faith and in the knowledge that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kinds of suffering.

Each word below is tagged with its Strong’s number — tap one to see the underlying Greek word, its meaning, and every verse that uses it.