2 Corinthians 13:9
For we rejoice that we are weak, while you are strong. This is also what we pray for: your perfection.
Catholic Public Domain 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 cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 4:12Therefore, death is at work in us, and life is at work in you.
2 Corinthians 11:30If it is necessary to glory, I will glory of the things that concern my weaknesses.
2 Corinthians 13:7Now we pray to God that you shall do nothing evil, not so that we may seem to be approved, but so that you may do what is good, even if we seem like reprobates.
Ephesians 4:12for the sake of the perfection of the saints, by the work of the ministry, in the edification of the body of Christ,
Colossians 1:28We are announcing him, correcting every man and teaching every man, with all wisdom, so that we may offer every man perfect in Christ Jesus.
1 Thessalonians 3:10For night and day, ever more abundantly, we are praying that we may see your face, and that we may complete those things that are 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 →