2 Corinthians 13:9
For we are glad when we are feeble and you are strong: and this is our prayer, even that you may be made complete.
Bible in Basic English
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
8Because we are able to do nothing against what is true, but only for it.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 4:12So then, death is working in us, but life in you.
2 Corinthians 11:30If I have to take credit to myself, I will do so in the things in which I am feeble.
2 Corinthians 13:7Now our prayer to God is that you may do no evil; not in order that it may be put to our credit, but so that you may do what is right, whatever we may seem.
Ephesians 4:12For the training of the saints as servants in the church, for the building up of the body of Christ:
Colossians 1:28Whom we are preaching; guiding and teaching every man in all wisdom, so that every man may be complete in Christ;
1 Thessalonians 3:10Night and day requesting God again and again that we may see your face and make your faith complete.
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 →