--- title: "2 Corinthians 13 - Study King James Bible with clarkes commentary" description: "Read 2 Corinthians 13 with clarkes commentary commentary. 1 This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. 2 I told you before, and foretell you" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/clarkes-commentary/2-corinthians/13" --- [ Read](/kjv/2-corinthians/13)[ Commentary](/study/2-corinthians/13)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/2-corinthians/13) Audio 1 This *is* the third *time* I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. 2 I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare: 3 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you. 4 For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you. 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? 6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates. 7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates. 8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. 9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, *even* your perfection. 10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction. 11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you. 12 Greet one another with an holy kiss. 13 All the saints salute you. 14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, *be* with you all. Amen. [2 Corinthians 12](/study/2-corinthians/12) [Galatians 1](/study/galatians/1) ## Commentary To verse 1 Verse [2 Corinthians 13:1](/kjv/2-corinthians/13/1). ***This is the third*****time*****I am coming to you.*** — These words are nearly the same with those [2 Corinthians 12:14](/kjv/2-corinthians/12/14); and probably refer to the purpose which he had *twice* before formed of seeing them. But the latter clause seems to attach a different meaning to the passage; at least so it has been understood by some learned men. *Schoettgen* thus interprets the whole: the *first* coming of the apostle to Corinth was when he *personally* visited them, and there founded the Christian Church. By his *second* coming we are to understand his first epistle to them; and, by his being now ready to come to them the *third* time, we are to understand this *second* epistle, which he was then going to send them. These were the *two* witnesses, and the apostle the *third*, which he gave to the Corinthians concerning the truth of his own ministry, or the falsity of the ministry of the pretended apostle. *Calmet* contends that the apostle had been *twice* before at Corinth, and that he now purposed to go a *third* time; and that these visits were the *two* or *three witnesses* to which the apostle appeals. Dr. *Lightfoot* thinks that the two or three witnesses were *Stephanas, Fortunatus*, and *Achaicus*, sent to assure them of his coming. But this opinion cannot be supported. With respect to the *two* or *three witnesses* establishing the subject, Dr. *Whitby* says. "Though these words seem to be cited from [Deuteronomy 19:15](/kjv/deuteronomy/19/15), rather than from [Matthew 18:16](/kjv/matthew/18/16), it being rare to find this apostle citing any thing from the New Testament, without calling it *an ordinance of the Lord*, yet it is probable that he here alludes to the practice there prescribed for the reclaiming of offenders. And then his *first* epistle being written with this introduction: *Paul an apostle, and Sosthenes*; his *second* thus: *Paul and Timotheus*; may pass for *two or three witnesses*; and his *presence* the *third* time in *person*, to exercise his censures on those offenders, before the body of the Church, may bear a fair resemblance to our Lord's prescription in the above case: *If thy* *brother offend*," &c.-So far *Whitby*. 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