2 Corinthians 13:9
And we rejoice, when we are weak and ye are strong. And this also we pray for, that ye may be perfected.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
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 can do nothing against the truth, but only for the truth.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 4:12Now therefore, in us death is active, but in you, life.
2 Corinthians 11:30If I must glory, I will glory in my infirmities.
2 Corinthians 13:7And I beseech God, that there may be no evil in you, so that the proof of us may appear: and yet, that ye may be doers of good things, though we be as reprobates.
Ephesians 4:12for perfecting the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edification of the body of the Messiah;
Colossians 1:28whom we proclaim, and teach and make known to every man, in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Jesus the Messiah.
1 Thessalonians 3:10unless it be, that we the more supplicate before God, by night and by day, that we may see your faces, and may perfect what 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 →