1. This third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every matter be established.
2. I have declared beforehand, and I say beforehand as present the second time, and now absent, to those that have sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare.
3. Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, (who is not weak towards you, but is powerful among you,
4. for if indeed he has been crucified in weakness, yet he lives by God's power; for indeed we are weak in him, but we shall live with him by God's power towards you,)