2 Corinthians 13:1

This third time do I come unto you; on the mouth of two witnesses or three shall every saying be established;

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.

In Context

2I have said before, and I say [it] before, as being present, the second time, and being absent, now, do I write to those having sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 17:6By the mouth of two witnesses or of three witnesses is he who is dead put to death; he is not put to death by the mouth of one witness;

1 Kings 1:14Lo, thou are yet speaking there with the king, and I come in after thee, and have completed thy words.'

1 Kings 21:13and two men — sons of worthlessness — come in, and sit over-against him, and the men of worthlessness testify of him, even Naboth, before the people, saying, 'Naboth blessed God and Melech;' and they take him out to the outside of the city, and stone him with stones, and he dieth;

Matthew 26:60and they did not find; and many false witnesses having come near, they did not find; and at last two false witnesses having come near,

2 Corinthians 12:14Lo, a third time I am ready to come unto you, and I will not be a burden to you, for I seek not yours, but you, for the children ought not for the parents to lay up, but the parents for the children,

Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 13:1

In this chapter the apostle threatens to be severe against obstinate sinners, and assigns the reason thereof ( ver. 1-6 ); then he makes a suitable prayer to God on the behalf of the Corinthians, with the reasons inducing him thereto ( ver. 7-10 ), and concludes his epistle with a valediction and a benediction, ver. 11-14 . Read the whole commentary →

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