2 Corinthians 13:9
Now we are glad when we are weak and you are strong. And we also pray for this, your perfecting.
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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 4:12So then, death is at work in us, but life in you.
2 Corinthians 11:30Well, if I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.
2 Corinthians 13:7Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we may appear approved, but that you may do what is right (even though we may appear to have failed).
Ephesians 4:12for the equipping of the saints into the work of the ministry, so as to build up the body of Christ,
Colossians 1:28whom we proclaim, warning every man and teaching every man with all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ.
1 Thessalonians 3:10praying most earnestly night and day, that we may see your face and complete the things 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 →