--- title: "2 Corinthians 13 - Study King James Bible with cokes commentary on the holy bible" description: "Read 2 Corinthians 13 with cokes commentary on the holy bible 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/cokes-commentary-on-the-holy-bible/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 ***[2 Corinthians 13:1](/kjv/2-corinthians/13/1)*****.*****In the mouth of two or three witnesses*****—** These words seem to be quoted from the law of our Saviour, Mat 18:16 and not from the law of Moses in Deuteronomy; not only because the words are the same with those in St. Matthew, but from the likeness of the case. In Deuteronomy the rule given concerns only judicial trials; in St. Matthew it is a rule given for the management of persuasion, and for the reclaiming of an offender by gentle means, before coming to the utmost extremity; which is the case of St. Paul here. In Deuteronomy the judge was to hear the witnesses, [Deuteronomy 17:6](/kjv/deuteronomy/17/6); [Deuteronomy 19:15](/kjv/deuteronomy/19/15). In St. Matthew the party was to hear the witnesses, Mat 18:17 which was also the case of St. Paul here; the *witnesses*which he made use of to persuade them being his two epistles. That by witnesses he means his two epistles, is plain, from his way of expressing himself here, where he carefully mentions his telling them twice, viz. before in his former epistle, ch. 1Co 4:19 and now a *second time*in his second epistle; and also by the words, *as if I were present*with you a *second time.*By our Saviour's rule the offended person was to go twice to the offender; and therefore St. Paul says, *as if I were with you a second time,*counting his letters as two personal applications to them, as our Saviour directed should be done, before coming to rougher means. Some take the *witnesses*to be the three messengers by whom his first Epistle is supposed to be sent: but this would not be according to the method prescribed by our Saviour, in the place from which St. Paul takes the words that he uses; for there were no witnesses to be made use of in the first application; neither, if those had been the witnesses meant, would there have been any need for St. Paul so expressly and carefully to have set down—*as is present a second time;*words which, in that case, would be superfluous. Besides, those three men are no where mentioned to have been sent by him to persuade them, nor the Corinthians required to hear them, or reproved for not having done it. 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