2 Corinthians 13:9
For we rejoice when we may be weak, and you may be strong: we are praying for even this, your perfection.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
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 4:12So that death works in us, but life in you.
2 Corinthians 11:30But if it behooves me to glory, I will glory in those things appertaining to my infirmities.
2 Corinthians 13:7But we are praying unto God, that he may do you no evil, not in order that we may appear approved, but that you may do that which is good, and we may be as disapproved.
Ephesians 4:12unto the perfection of the saints, in the work of the ministry, in the edification of the body of Christ:
Colossians 1:28whom we preach, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, in order that we may present every man perfect in Christ;
1 Thessalonians 3:10night and day praying incessantly that we may see your face, and perfect the deficiencies of 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 →