2nd Corinthians Chapter 13 verse 1 Holy Bible

ASV 2ndCorinthians 13:1

This is the third time I am coming to you. At the mouth of two witnesses or three shall every word established.
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BBE 2ndCorinthians 13:1

This is the third time that I am coming to you. From the mouth of two or three witnesses will every word be made certain.
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DARBY 2ndCorinthians 13:1

This third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every matter be established.
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KJV 2ndCorinthians 13:1

This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.
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WBT 2ndCorinthians 13:1


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WEB 2ndCorinthians 13:1

This is the third time I am coming to you. "At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word established."
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YLT 2ndCorinthians 13:1

This third time do I come unto you; on the mouth of two witnesses or three shall every saying be established;
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 1. - This is the third time I am coming to you. I have thrice formed the intention, though the second time I had to forego my plan (2 Corinthians 1:15-17). In the mouth of two or three witnesses. The quotation is from Deuteronomy 19:15. It has been explained as a reference to examinations which he intended to hold on his arrival at Corinth. It is much more probable that St. Paul is representing his separate visits as separate attestations to the truths which he preaches.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English ReadersXIII.(1) This is the third time I am coming to you.--The words may point either to three actual visits--(1) that of Acts 18:1; (2) an unrecorded visit (of which, however, there is no trace), during St. Paul's stay at Ephesus; and (3) that now in contemplation--or (1) to one actual visit, as before; (2) the purposed visit which had been abandoned (see Notes on 2Corinthians 1:16); and (3) that which he now has in view. The latter interpretation falls in best with the known facts of the case, and is in entire accordance both with his language in 2Corinthians 12:14, and with his mode of expressing his intentions, as in 1Corinthians 16:5.In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.--There seems no adequate reason for not taking these words in their simple and natural meaning. The rule, quoted from Numbers 35:30, Deuteronomy 17:6; Deuteronomy 19:15, was of the nature of an axiom of Jewish, one might almost say of natural, law. And it had received a fresh prominence from our Lord's reproduction of it in giving directions as for the discipline of the society which He came to found. (See Note on Matthew 18:16.) What more natural than that St. Paul should say, "When I come, there will be no more surmises and vague suspicions, but every offence will be dealt with in a vigorous and full inquiry"? There seems something strained, almost fantastic, in the interpretation which, catching at the accidental juxtaposition of "the third time" and the "three witnesses," assumes that the Apostle personifies his actual or intended visits, and treats them as the witnesses whose testimony was to be decisive. It is a fatal objection to this view that it turns the judge into a prosecutor, and makes him appeal to his own reiteration of his charges as evidence of their truth. . . .