2 Corinthians 13:9
We are glad when we are weak, if you are strong. And what we pray for is that you may become perfect.
Open English Bible (US)
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
8We have no power at all against the truth, but we have power in the service of the truth.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 4:12And so, while death is at work within us, life is at work within you.
2 Corinthians 11:30If I must boast, I will boast of things which show my weakness!
2 Corinthians 13:7We pray to God that you may do nothing wrong, not that we may be seen to stand the test, but that you may do what is right, even though we may seem not to stand the test.
Ephesians 4:12to fit his people for the work of the ministry, for the building up of the body of the Christ.
Colossians 1:28This is the Christ whom we proclaim, warning everyone, and instructing everyone, with all the wisdom that we possess, in the hope of bringing everyone into God’s presence perfected by union with Christ.
1 Thessalonians 3:10Night and day we pray most earnestly that we may see you face to face, and make good any deficiency 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 →