2 Corinthians 13:5

New Century Version

Look closely at yourselves. Test yourselves to see if you are living in the faith. You know that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you fail the test.

Cross References

Psalm 119:59

I thought about my life, and I decided to follow your rules.

Psalm 17:3

You have examined my heart; you have tested me all night. You questioned me without finding anything wrong; I have not sinned with my mouth.

Psalm 26:2

Lord, try me and test me; look closely into my heart and mind.

Jeremiah 6:30

My people will be called rejected silver, because the Lord has rejected them.”

Lamentations 3:40

Let us examine and see what we have done and then return to the Lord.

Ezekiel 18:28

Because they thought about it and stopped doing all the sins they had done, they will surely live; they will not die.

Haggai 1:5

This is what the Lord All-Powerful says: “Think about what you have done.

Haggai 1:7

This is what the Lord All-Powerful says: “Think about what you have done.

John 14:23

Jesus answered, “If people love me, they will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.

John 15:4

Remain in me, and I will remain in you. A branch cannot produce fruit alone but must remain in the vine. In the same way, you cannot produce fruit alone but must remain in me.

John 17:23

I will be in them and you will be in me so that they will be completely one. Then the world will know that you sent me and that you loved them just as much as you loved me.

John 17:26

I showed them what you are like, and I will show them again. Then they will have the same love that you have for me, and I will live in them.”

John 6:56

Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood live in me, and I live in them.

John 6:6

(Jesus asked Philip this question to test him, because Jesus already knew what he planned to do.)

Romans 1:28

People did not think it was important to have a true knowledge of God. So God left them and allowed them to have their own worthless thinking and to do things they should not do.

Romans 8:10

Your body will always be dead because of sin. But if Christ is in you, then the Spirit gives you life, because Christ made you right with God.

1 Corinthians 11:28

Look into your own hearts before you eat the bread and drink the cup,

1 Corinthians 11:31

But if we judged ourselves in the right way, God would not judge us.

1 Corinthians 3:16

Don’t you know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

1 Corinthians 6:15

Surely you know that your bodies are parts of Christ himself. So I must never take the parts of Christ and join them to a prostitute!

1 Corinthians 6:19

You should know that your body is a temple for the Holy Spirit who is in you. You have received the Holy Spirit from God. So you do not belong to yourselves,

1 Corinthians 6:2

Surely you know that God’s people will judge the world. So if you are to judge the world, are you not able to judge small cases as well?

1 Corinthians 9:24

You know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize. So run to win!

1 Corinthians 9:27

I treat my body hard and make it my slave so that I myself will not be disqualified after I have preached to others.

2 Corinthians 6:16

The temple of God cannot have any agreement with idols, and we are the temple of the living God. As God said: “I will live with them and walk with them. And I will be their God, and they will be my people.”

Galatians 2:20

I was put to death on the cross with Christ, and I do not live anymore—it is Christ who lives in me. I still live in my body, but I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself to save me.

Galatians 4:19

My little children, again I feel the pain of childbirth for you until you truly become like Christ.

Galatians 6:4

Each person should judge his own actions and not compare himself with others. Then he can be proud for what he himself has done.

Ephesians 3:17

I pray that Christ will live in your hearts by faith and that your life will be strong in love and be built on love.

Colossians 1:23

This will happen if you continue strong and sure in your faith. You must not be moved away from the hope brought to you by the Good News that you heard. That same Good News has been told to everyone in the world, and I, Paul, help in preaching that Good News.

Colossians 1:27

God decided to let his people know this rich and glorious secret which he has for all people. This secret is Christ himself, who is in you. He is our only hope for glory.

Colossians 2:19

They do not hold tightly to Christ, the head. It is from him that all the parts of the body are cared for and held together. So it grows in the way God wants it to grow.

Colossians 2:7

Keep your roots deep in him and have your lives built on him. Be strong in the faith, just as you were taught, and always be thankful.

1 Timothy 2:15

But she will be saved through having children if she continues in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control.

2 Timothy 3:8

Just as Jannes and Jambres were against Moses, these people are against the truth. Their thinking has been ruined, and they have failed in trying to follow the faith.

Titus 1:13

The words that prophet said are true. So firmly tell those people they are wrong so they may become strong in the faith,

Titus 1:16

They say they know God, but their actions show they do not accept him. They are hateful people, they refuse to obey, and they are useless for doing anything good.

Titus 2:2

Teach older men to be self-controlled, serious, wise, strong in faith, in love, and in patience.

Hebrews 12:15

Be careful that no one fails to receive God’s grace and begins to cause trouble among you. A person like that can ruin many of you.

Hebrews 4:1

Now, since God has left us the promise that we may enter his rest, let us be very careful so none of you will fail to enter.

Hebrews 6:8

Other people are like land that grows thorns and weeds and is worthless. It is about to be cursed by God and will be destroyed by fire.

James 4:4

So, you are not loyal to God! You should know that loving the world is the same as hating God. Anyone who wants to be a friend of the world becomes God’s enemy.

1 Peter 5:9

Refuse to give in to him, by standing strong in your faith. You know that your Christian family all over the world is having the same kinds of suffering.

Revelation 2:5

So remember where you were before you fell. Change your hearts and do what you did at first. If you do not change, I will come to you and will take away your lampstand from its place.