2 Corinthians 13:9
For we are glad when we are weak, and you are strong: and this is our prayer, for your perfection.
Revised King James 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
8For we can do nothing against the truth, but only for the truth.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 4:12So then death works in us, but life in you.
2 Corinthians 11:30If I must boast, I will boast of things which show my weakness.
2 Corinthians 13:7Now I pray to God that you do no wrong; not that we should appear approved, but that you should do that which is right, even if we appear to be failures.
Ephesians 4:12For the equipping of the saints for the work of the ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ:
Colossians 1:28Him we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.
1 Thessalonians 3:10Night and day praying earnestly that we might see your face, and might supply 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 →