"For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we sha…" — 2 Corinthians 13:4

2 Corinthians 13:4 · KJV

“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. {in him: or, with him}”

— 2 Corinthians 13:4

Verse 3

Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.

Verse 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?

2 Corinthians 13 — Context

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:

Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.

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. {in him: or, with him}

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?

But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.

Cross References

1 Peter 3:18

For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

Romans 6:4

Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

2 Corinthians 10:3-4

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:

2 Timothy 2:11-12

{It is} a faithful saying: For if we be dead with {him}, we shall also live with {him}:

Romans 6:8-11

Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

1 Corinthians 2:3

And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

1 Corinthians 15:43

It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:

Philippians 2:7-11

But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: