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Only on the testimony of two or three witnesses shall a person be put to death;(A) no one shall be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.

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False Witnesses. 15 (A)One witness alone shall not stand against someone in regard to any crime or any offense that may have been committed; a charge shall stand only on the testimony of two or three witnesses.(B)

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17 Even in your law[a] it is written that the testimony of two men can be verified.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 8:17 Your law: a reflection of later controversy between church and synagogue.

Chapter 13

This third time I am coming[a] to you. “On the testimony of two or three witnesses a fact shall be established.”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 13:1 This third time I am coming: designation of the forthcoming visit as the “third” (cf. 2 Cor 12:14) may indicate that, in addition to his founding sojourn in Corinth, Paul had already made the first of two visits mentioned as planned in 2 Cor 1:15, and the next visit will be the long-postponed second of these. If so, the materials in 2 Cor 1:12–2:13 plus 2 Cor 7:4–16 and 2 Cor 10–13 may date from the same period of time, presumably of some duration, between Paul’s second and third visit, though it is not clear that they are addressing the same crisis. The chronology is too unsure and the relations between sections of 2 Corinthians too unclear to yield any certainty. The hypothesis that 2 Cor 10–13 are themselves the “tearful letter” mentioned at 2 Cor 2:3–4 creates more problems than it solves.

19 Do not accept an accusation against a presbyter unless it is supported by two or three witnesses.(A)

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