2 Corinthians 13:9
For we are glad when we are weak and ye are strong. And this also we pray for, your full qualification.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.
In Context
8For we do not have any power against the truth, but for the truth.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 4:12So death indeed works in us, but life in you.
2 Corinthians 11:30If it is necessary to boast, I will boast of the things of my weakness.
2 Corinthians 13:7Now I pray to God, to do you nothing harmful, not that we would appear test-passing, but that ye would do right, even like we might be test-failing.
Ephesians 4:12for the perfecting of the sanctified, for the work of ministry, for edification of the body of the Christ.
Colossians 1:28Whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, so that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.
1 Thessalonians 3:10praying night and day above extraordinary in order to see your face and to mend the deficiencies of your faith?
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 13:8-11
The Apostle Asserts His Claims. ( a. d. 57.) 7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates. 8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. 9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection. 10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and… Read the whole commentary →