2 Corinthians 13:9
We are glad when we are weake and ye stronge. This also we wisshe for even that ye were perfect.
Tyndale 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
8We can do no thinge agaynst the trueth but for the trueth.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 4:12So then deeth worketh in vs and lyfe in you.
2 Corinthians 11:30Yf I must nedes reioyce I will reioyce of myne infirmities.
2 Corinthians 13:7I desyre before God that ye do none evyll not that we shuld seme comendable: but that ye shuld do that which is honest: and let vs be counted as leawde persones.
Ephesians 4:12that the sainctes might have all thinges necessarie to worke and minister with all to the edifyinge of the body of christ
Colossians 1:28whom we preach warnynge all men and teachinge all men in all wisdome to make all men parfect in Christ Iesu.
1 Thessalonians 3:10whyle we nyght and daye praye excedingly that we myght se you presently and myght fulfill that wich is lackynge in youre fayth.
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 →