2 Corinthians 13:9
For we rejoice when we are weak, and you are strong. And we pray also for this―your perfection.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
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 can do nothing against the truth, but we can do something for the truth.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 4:12So, then, death is active in us, but life in you.
2 Corinthians 11:30If I must boast, I will boast in my infirmities.
2 Corinthians 13:7Yet I pray to God that you may do no evil; not that we may appear as having proof, but that you may do what is good, though we be as without proof.
Ephesians 4:12for the complete instruction of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the building up of the body of the Christ,
Colossians 1:28whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
1 Thessalonians 3:10night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and perfect that which is lacking in 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 →