13:1 This third time I am coming to you; at the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.
这是我第三次要到你们那里去,凭两三个见证人的口,句句都要定准。
13:2 I have previously said and I say beforehand, when I was present the second time and being absent now, to those who have sinned before and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare,
13:3 Since you seek a proof of the Christ who is speaking in me, who is not weak unto you but is powerful in you.
因为你们寻求基督在我里面说话的凭证。基督向着你们不是软弱的,在你们里面乃是有大能的。
13:4 For indeed He was crucified out of weakness, but He lives by the power of God. For indeed we are weak in Him, but we will live together with Him by the power of God directed toward you.
13:5 Test yourselves whether you are in the faith; prove yourselves. Or do you not realize about yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are disapproved?
13:6 But I hope that you will know that we are not disapproved.
我却盼望你们晓得,我们不是经不起试验的。
13:7 Now we pray to God that you do nothing wrong, not that we may appear approved, but that you yourselves may do what is good and we may be as if disapproved.
13:8 For we are not able to do anything against the truth but rather for the truth.
因为我们不能作任何事抵挡真理,只能拥护真理。
13:9 For we rejoice whenever we are weak and you are powerful; this also we pray for, your perfecting.
无论何时我们软弱,你们有能力,我们就喜乐了;我们还祈求一件事,就是你们被成全。
13:10 Therefore I write these things while being absent in order that when present I would not have to use severity, according to the authority which the Lord has given me for building up and not for overthrowing.