16 But if he does not listen, take along with you one or two more, in order that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every matter* may be established.*+

13 This is the third time+ I am coming to YOU. “At the mouth of two witnesses or of three every matter must be established.”+

16 Indeed, the sacred secret+ of this godly devotion* is admittedly great: ‘He was made manifest in flesh,+ was declared righteous in spirit,+ appeared to angels,+ was preached about among nations,+ was believed upon in [the] world,+ was received up in glory.’+