2 Corinthians 13 · Verse 6

2 Corinthians 13:6

But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
2 Corinthians 13:6, King James Version

2 Corinthians 13:6 in other translations

BSBAnd I hope you will realize that we have not failed the test.
WEBBut I hope that you will know that we aren’t disqualified.
ASVBut I hope that ye shall know that we are not reprobate.
YLTand I hope that ye shall know that we--we are not disapproved of;
DARBYNow I hope that ye will know that we are not reprobates.
BBEBut it is my hope that you will have no doubt that we are truly Christ's.
WebsterBut I trust that ye will know that we are not reprobates.

What does 2 Corinthians 13:6 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
6. we ... not reprobates--not unable to abide the proof to which ye put us (2Co 13:6). "I trust that" your own Christianity will be recognized by you (observe, "ye shall know," answers to "know your own selves," 2Co 13:5) as sufficient "proof" that ye are not reprobates, but that "Christ speaks in me," without needing a proof from me more trying to yourselves. If ye doubt my apostleship, ye must doubt your own Christianity, for ye are the fruits of my apostleship.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Barnes' Notes
Verse 6. But I trust, etc. The sense of this verse is, "Whatever may be the result of your examination of yourselves, I trust (Gr., I hope) you will not find us false and to be rejected; that is, I trust you will find in me evidence that I am commissioned by the Lord Jesus to be his apostle." The idea is, that they would find, when he was among them, that he was endowed with all the qualifications needful to confer a claim to the apostolic office.

(*) "reprobates" "disapproved"

Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 6 Ye shall know that we are not reprobates - Ye have had, and ye shall have, the fullest proof that I have preached the true faith among you; and that God has confirmed it by his testimony; and thus that I am proved and manifested to be what I ought to be, and shown to be approved of God.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Corinthians 13:1-6

Though it is God's gracious method to bear long with sinners, yet he will not bear always; at length he will come, and will not spare those who remain obstinate and impenitent. Christ at his crucifixion, appeared as only a weak and helpless man, but his resurrection and life showed his Divine power. So the apostles, how mean and contemptible soever they appeared to the world, yet, as instruments, they manifested the…

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2 Corinthians 13:6 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

ἐλπίζωelpizōI hopeG1679
δὲdenowG1161
ὅτιhotithatG3754
γνώσεσθεgnōsestheyou will knowG1097
ὅτιhotithatG3754
ἡμεῖςhēmeiswe ourselvesG3165
οὐκouknotG3756
ἐσμὲνesmenareG1510
ἀδόκιμοι.adokimoiunapproved.G96

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 2 Corinthians 13:6

  • 2 Corinthians 12:20

    For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

  • 2 Corinthians 13:3-4

    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.

  • 2 Corinthians 13:10

    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.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
3,4,10; 12:20

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • 2 Corinthians 13:5

    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 13:6

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

  • 2 Corinthians 13:7

    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.

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2 Corinthians 13:6 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Mas espero que conoceréis que nosotros no somos reprobados.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		mais j’espère que vous connaîtrez que nous, nous ne sommes pas des réprouvés.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Ich hoffe aber, daß ihr erkennen werdet, daß wir nicht unbewährt sind.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Spero autem quod cognoscetis, quia nos non sumus reprobi.