2 Corinthians 13

Ver. 1, 2. As I am now, for the third time, preparing to visit you, ye may be assured that, if I find any obstinately scandalous, notwithstanding my former admonitions, I will immediately proceed against them with high and solemn censures

2 Corinthians 13:3

And that, in vindication of my sacred office, and for the honour of Christ, of whose commission to me, and speaking and acting in me, some of you insolently demand a proof; yet whose working by me to youward has not been weak, but with mighty power and energy, in your effectual conversion, and in the gifts and graces bestowed on you, and miracles wrought among you, and in inflicting sickness and death on some of your disorderly walkers

2 Corinthians 13:4

For though, through the weakness of his manhood and voluntary subjection to death, he was crucified, as if merely a weak and mortal creature; yet, by virtue of his own and his Father’s divine power, he arose from the dead, and now lives in his exalted state, to exercise all authority in heaven and on earth: even so we, his faithful servants, are, in the opinion of our adversaries, weak and contemptible, and are exposed to manifold sufferings for his sake; but, connected with him, we shew, by the same power, in remarkable effects, 12 U Galatia was a province in the north-east of Lesser Asia. Here, as in many other places, the apostles had scarcely planted the gospel of Christ, when some judaizing teachers contended that the Gentile converts should be circumcised, as a token of their obligation to fulfil the whole law of Moses in order to their justification before God: and, as Paul’s instructions greatly thwarted their schemes, they insinuated that he had no apostolic authority. To confute these pretensions is the scope of this epistle. Here Paul (1) Represents his apostolic authority as nothing inferior to that of Peter, or any other apostle; chap. i. and ii. 1–15. (2) Reprehends the Galatians for their sudden apostasy from the faith of the gospel, and establishes the doctrine of justification by faith in the imputed righteousness of Christ; chap. i. 6–9.: ii. 16–21.: iii. iv. (3) Directs to the right improvement of the doctrines and privileges of gospel grace; chap. v. vi. **