你们总要自己省察有信心没有。也要自己试验。岂不知你们若不是可弃绝的,就有耶稣基督在你们心里吗。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?
我们求神,叫你们一件恶事都不作。这不是要显明我们是蒙悦纳的,是要你们行事端正,任凭人看我们是被弃绝的吧。Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.
所以我不在你们那里的时候,把这话写给你们,好叫我见你们的时候,不用照主所给我的权柄,严厉的待你们。这权柄原是为造就人,并不是为败坏人。Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
还有未了的话,愿弟兄们都喜乐。要作完全人。要受安慰。要同心合意。要彼此和睦。如此仁爱和平的神,必常与你们同在。Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.