2 Corinthians 13:9
For we rejoice when we are weak, and you are strong: but this also we pray, that you may be perfect.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
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 are not able to do any thing against the truth, but for the truth.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 4:12Now death in us worketh earnestly, but life in you.
2 Corinthians 11:30If I must boast in my infirmities, I will boast.
2 Corinthians 13:7But I implore of Aloha that there may not be any thing in you that is evil, that our proving may be seen; but that you may do good, and that we may be as unproved.
Ephesians 4:12for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edification of the (church of the) Meshiha,
Colossians 1:28whom we proclaim, and (concerning whom) we teach and inform every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Jeshu Meshiha;
1 Thessalonians 3:10unless before Aloha we supplicate exceedingly by night and by day to see your faces, and to perfect what is wanting to 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 →