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 Yahweh.
• 1 Cor 11:28But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.
• Ps 139:23–24Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
• 1 Cor 9:27but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
• Rev 2:5Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.
• Gal 6:4But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.
• 1 Cor 11:31For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn’t be judged.
• Heb 12:15looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;
• John 14:23Jesus answered him, “If a man 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 26:2Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.
• Gal 2:20I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
• Titus 1:16They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.
• Rom 8:10If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
• Ps 119:59I considered my ways, and turned my steps to your statutes.
• Rev 3:2–3Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God.
• Hag 1:7This is what Yahweh of Armies says: “Consider your ways.
• Heb 4:1Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.
• 1 Cor 9:24Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.
• Hag 1:5Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.
• 1 Cor 3:16Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
• Ps 17:3You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.
• John 15:4Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.
• Eph 2:20–22being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;
• John 17:23I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me.
• Titus 2:2that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance:
• Jas 4:4You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
• 1 Cor 6:19Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
• Eph 3:17that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
• John 17:26I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
• Gal 4:19My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you —
• John 6:6This he said to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.
• Col 1:27to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;
• John 6:56He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.
• Col 2:7rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.
• 1 Cor 6:2Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
• 2 Cor 6:16What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
• Col 1:23if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
• 1 Jn 3:20–21because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
• Heb 6:8but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.
• 1 Pet 5:9Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.

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