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5 Look at yourselves and check to see if you still believe. Test yourselves. Do you not know Jesus Christ is in you? If he is not in you, you do not pass the test.
6 I hope you will know that we pass the test.
7 We ask God to help you that you will do nothing wrong. That is not to show you that we pass the test. We want you to do what is right even if we do not pass the test.
8 After all, we have no power to work against what is true, but only for the truth.
9 We are glad to be weak, if you are made strong. And we ask God for this too, that you may become perfect.
10 That is why I am writing these things to you the way I am, before I reach you. Then, when I come to you, I do not want to be hard on you. I do not want to use the power which the Lord has given me. He gave it to me to help to make you better Christians, not to break you down.
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