2 Corinthians 13:5
Look closely at yourselves: are you holding to the faith? Put yourselves to the test. Or do you not see in your own lives that Jesus Christ is in you? That is, unless you fail the test.
Treated in 20 passages across the library.
Where it is preached
- The Life and Diary of David Brainerd ·
From the close of his Public Journal, June 19, 1746, to his death—continuance of labor at Crossweeksung and Cranberry—journey with six Christian Indians to the Susquehanna, and labors there—return to Crossweeksung—compelled by prostration of health to have the Indians—confinement by sickness at Eliz cites 2 Cor. 13:5
…Sept. 28.—“Rode to my people, and, though under much weakness, attempted to preach from 2 Cor. 13:5. Discoursed about half an hour, at which season divine power seemed to attend the word…
- The Mortification of Sin in Believers ·
Consider the dangerous symptoms of any lust cites 2 Cor. xiii. 5
…the former loving-kindness of the Lord. This is the duty that Paul sets us to practise, 2 Cor. xiii. 5. And as it is in itself excellent, so it hath beauty added to it by a proper season, a…
- The Key Teachings of Martyn Lloyd-Jones ·
What Is Really Wrong cites 2 CORINTHIANS 13:5
…something solid. Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. 2 CORINTHIANS 13:5 The diagnosis is itself a mercy It would be easy to hear all this as bleak. Lloyd-Jones…
- The Secret of Guidance ·
The Secret of Christ’s Indwelling cites 2 Cor. xiii. 5
…ye not as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless ye be reprobate?" (2 Cor. xiii. 5.) It is very wonderful. Yes; the heavens, even the heavens of heavens, with all their…
- Thoughts for the Quiet Hour ·
November cites 2 Cor. xiii. 5
…been broken upon the wheel on earth.—G. Campbell Morgan. November 12 Examine yourselves. 2 Cor. xiii. 5. If your state be good, searching into it will give you that comfort of it. If your state…
- The Key Teachings of John Owen ·
What It Is to Mortify a Sin cites 2 CORINTHIANS 13:5
…made in a crisis. Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. 2 CORINTHIANS 13:5 FOR REFLECTION AND ACTION 1. Go through Owen’s five counterfeits one by one and ask…
- The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith ·
The Deity of Jesus Christ cites 2 Cor. 13:5
…should go He would be with them, even unto the end of the age, and in John 14:20 and 2 Cor. 13:5 we are told that He dwells in each believer, in all the millions of believers scattered…
- Portraits of Courage – Watchman Nee ·
Spirit, Soul, and Body cites 2 Corinthians 13:5
…Self-examination has a place—“Try your own selves, whether ye are in the faith” (2 Corinthians 13:5, ASV)—but Christian life is not endless inward dissection. The shepherd looks at Christ…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 3, Chapter 2 — Of Faith cites 2 Cor. 13:5
…Know ye not your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?” (2 Cor. 13:5). John, moreover, says, “Hereby we know that he abideth in us by the Spirit which he has…
- The Key Teachings of Catherine Booth ·
Married to Another cites 2 CORINTHIANS 13:5
…is not a child. Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. 2 CORINTHIANS 13:5 What she was right to refuse was complacency: the settled contentment of those who have…
- The Key Teachings of Athanasius of Alexandria ·
Live as Though Dying Daily cites 2 CORINTHIANS 13:5
…careful of them. Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. 2 CORINTHIANS 13:5 The practice is worth adopting, in some form, by any Christian. A few minutes at the end…
- The Key Teachings of John Bunyan ·
Religion in Silver Slippers cites 2 CORINTHIANS 13:5
…turn aside to see. Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. 2 CORINTHIANS 13:5 FOR REFLECTION AND ACTION 1. Where is your religion more talk than practice? Choose one…
- The Key Teachings of R. A. Torrey ·
Because God Says So cites 2 CORINTHIANS 13:5
…Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? 2 CORINTHIANS 13:5 The same letter John wrote so that believers might know gives marks of new life…
- The Key Teachings of George Whitefield ·
Conclusion cites 2 CORINTHIANS 13:5
…Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? 2 CORINTHIANS 13:5 Second, carry the open door. Whitefield’s gospel was for colliers and countesses, for the…
- The Key Teachings of Richard Baxter ·
Self-Examination cites 2 CORINTHIANS 13:5
Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. 2 CORINTHIANS 13:5 Baxter was a physician of souls in an almost literal sense — he studied medicine…
- The Key Teachings of Jonathan Edwards ·
Signs of Gracious Affections cites 2 CORINTHIANS 13:5
Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. 2 CORINTHIANS 13:5 Having shown that strong religious feeling proves nothing by itself, Edwards faced the…
- Real Questions – Book 3 ·
What If I Feel Like a Fake Christian? cites 2 Corinthians 13:5
…Paul does tell Christians, “Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith” (2 Corinthians 13:5). That’s a healthy question to ask once in a while. But examining yourself isn’t the same…
- A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections ·
XI. It is no sign that affections are right, or that they are wrong, that they make persons that have them exceeding confident that what they experience is divine, and that they are in a good estate cites 2 Cor. 13:5
…argument of something very blamable in them, not to know whether Christ be in them or no: 2 Cor. 13:5, “Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?”…
- Lectures on Revivals of Religion ·
Lecture VII. On Being Filled with the Spirit cites 2 Cor. xiii. 5
…of God dwell in you. Now, if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.” 2 Cor. xiii. 5.—“Examine yourselves whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves: know ye not your…
- Selected Sermons of George Whitefield ·
The Heinous Sin of Drunkenness cites 2 Cor. 13:5
…doubt, as is evident from many of his epistles; and the word ἀδόκιμος bears this sense, 2 Cor. 13:5 and sundry other places. But why urge I the apostle's example, to excite you to a strict…