2 Corinthians 13:1
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“This is the third time I am coming to you. “Every matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.””
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“This is the third time I am coming to you. “Every matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.”
King James Version · Public Domain“This is the third time I am coming to you. At the mouth of two witnesses or three shall every word be established.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“This third time do I come unto you; on the mouth of two witnesses or three shall every saying be established;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 2 Corinthians 13:1 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 35:30If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be put to death on the testimony of the witnesses. But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of a lone witness.
- Deuteronomy 17:6On the testimony of two or three witnesses a man shall be put to death, but he shall not be executed on the testimony of a lone witness.
- Deuteronomy 19:15A lone witness is not sufficient to establish any wrongdoing or sin against a man, regardless of what offense he may have committed. A matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.
- 1 Kings 1:14Then, while you are still there speaking with the king, I will come in after you and confirm your words.”
- 1 Kings 21:10But seat two scoundrels opposite him and have them testify, ‘You have cursed both God and the king!’ Then take him out and stone him to death.”
- 1 Kings 21:13And the two scoundrels came in and sat opposite Naboth, and these men testified against him before the people, saying, “Naboth has cursed both God and the king!” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death.
- Matthew 18:16But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’
- Matthew 26:60But they did not find any, though many false witnesses came forward. Finally two came forward
- John 8:17Even in your own Law it is written that the testimony of two men is valid.
- 2 Corinthians 12:14See, I am ready to come to you a third time, and I will not be a burden, because I am not seeking your possessions, but you. For children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.
- Hebrews 10:28Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).