MODERN LITERAL VERSION

13:1 This will be the third time I am coming to you*. (Upon the mouth of two or three witnesses every declaration will be established.) {Deut. 19:15}
13:2 I have told you * beforehand and I do say again like beforehand, being present* the second time and so being absent now, I am writing to warn those who have sinned before and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare them,
13:3 since you* are seeking proof of Christ speaking in me; who is not weak toward you*, but is mighty in you*.
13:4 For* even if he was crucified out of weakness, but yet he is living out of the power of God. For* we are also weak in him, but yet we will live with him out of the power of God toward you*.
13:5 Test yourselves, if you* are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you* not fully know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you*? Lest you* are unapproved!
13:6 But I hope that you* will know that we are not unapproved.
13:7 Now I pray to God that you* do no evil; not that* we may appear approved, but that* you* may do what is good, but even if we may be as unapproved.
13:8 For* we can do nothing against the truth, but can on behalf of the truth.
13:9 For* we rejoice, when we may be weak, but you* may be mighty. We are also praying for this: your* perfecting.
13:10 Because of this, I am writing these things while being absent, that* I may not need to treat you * sharply being present*, according to the authority which the Lord gave me *for building up and not *for demolition.

13:11 Furthermore brethren: rejoice; be perfected; be comforted; be mindful of the same thing; be at peace and the God of love* and peace will be with you*.
13:12 Greet one another with a holy kiss.
13:13 All the holy-ones greet you*.
13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love* of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, is with you* all.
Amen.