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NASB | 2 Corinthians 13:5 ¶ Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you--unless indeed you fail the test? |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Corinthians 13:5 ¶ Test and evaluate yourselves to see whether you are in the faith and living your lives as [committed] believers. Examine yourselves [not me]! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves [by an ongoing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you--unless indeed you fail the test and are rejected as counterfeit? |
Subject: Examine yourselves! |
Bible Note: Well, thanks for the ear back, Mark. You returned it fuller than when I lent it! And if I hear you right, I cannot really disagree with you, and as for that, don't really want to :-) I think I hear you saying in effect that one does not need to be a Rhodes Bible Scholar (if any such thing exists) to answer the call of the Spirit and accept the Lord Jesus Christ as one's Savior. If that's about the nuts and bolts of it, we have essentially no difference of viewpoint whatever. I was saved when I was 14 years old, hardly knowing the difference between and apostle and an epistle, and not being able to give you a very scholarly definition of either. But salvation and sanctification (growing in the faith) are not one and the same, although the former is certainly prerequisite to the latter. The "sincere milk of the word," as the old King James puts it so beautifully, is the indispensible yardstick by which we must measure our progress as we attempt to walk with Christ. --Hank |