2 Corinthians 13:9
For we are glad when wee are weake, and that ye are strong: this also we wish for, euen your perfection.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 wee can not doe any thing against the trueth, but for the trueth.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 4:12So then death worketh in vs, and life in you.
2 Corinthians 11:30If I must needes reioyce, I will reioyce of mine infirmities.
2 Corinthians 13:7Nowe I pray vnto God that yee doe none euill, not that we should seeme approued, but that ye should doe that which is honest: though we be as reprobates.
Ephesians 4:12For the repairing of the Saintes, for the woorke of the ministerie, and for the edification of the bodie of Christ,
Colossians 1:28Whome we preache, admonishing euery man, and teaching euery man in all wisdome, that we may present euery man perfect in Christ Iesus,
1 Thessalonians 3:10Night and day, praying exceedingly that wee might see your face, and might accomplish that which is 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 →