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 search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
• 1 Cor 11:28But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
• Ps 139:23–24Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
• 1 Cor 9:27But 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.
• Rev 2:5Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
• Gal 6:4But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
• 1 Cor 11:31For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
• Heb 12:15Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
• John 14:23Jesus 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.
• Ps 26:2Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
• Gal 2:20I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
• Titus 1:16They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
• Rom 8:10And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
• Ps 119:59I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
• Rev 3:2–3Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.
• Hag 1:7Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
• Heb 4:1Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
• 1 Cor 9:24Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
• Hag 1:5Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
• 1 Cor 3:16Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
• Ps 17:3Thou 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.
• John 15:4Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
• Eph 2:20–22And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
• John 17:23I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
• Titus 2:2That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
• Jas 4:4Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
• 1 Cor 6:19What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
• Eph 3:17That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
• John 17:26And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
• Gal 4:19My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
• John 6:6And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he would do.
• Col 1:27To 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:
• John 6:56He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
• Col 2:7Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
• 1 Cor 6:2Do 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?
• 2 Cor 6:16And 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.
• Col 1:23If 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;
• 1 Jn 3:20–21For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
• Heb 6:8But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
• 1 Pet 5:9Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

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