2 Corinthians 13:5

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 {G3985} yourselves {G1438}, whether {G1487} ye be {G2075} in {G1722} the faith {G4102}; prove {G1381} your own selves {G1438}.{G2228} Know ye {G1921} not {G3756} your own selves {G1438}, how that {G3754} Jesus {G2424} Christ {G5547} is {G2076} in {G1722} you {G5213}, except {G1509} ye be {G2075} reprobates {G5100}{G96}?

Examine yourselves to see whether you are living the life of trust. Test yourselves. Don’t you realize that Yeshua the Messiah is in you? — unless you fail to pass the test.

Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Can’t you see for yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you actually fail the test?

Try your own selves, whether ye are in the faith; prove your own selves. Or know ye not as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? unless indeed ye be reprobate.

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Cross-References

  • Lamentations 3:40 (82 votes)

    Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.

  • 1 Corinthians 11:28 (59 votes)

    But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of [that] bread, and drink of [that] cup.

  • Psalms 139:23 (49 votes)

    Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

  • Psalms 139:24 (49 votes)

    And see if [there be any] wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

  • 1 Corinthians 9:27 (46 votes)

    But 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.

  • Revelation 2:5 (33 votes)

    Remember 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.

  • Galatians 6:4 (31 votes)

    But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.