2 Corinthians 13:9 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

We're glad when we are weak and you are strong. We are also praying for your improvement.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.

ASV:

For we rejoice, when we are weak, and ye are strong: this we also pray for, even your perfecting.

BBE:

For we are glad when we are feeble and you are strong: and this is our prayer, even that you may be made complete.

DBY:

For we rejoice when we may be weak and ye may be powerful. But this also we pray for, your perfecting.

ERV:

For we rejoice, when we are weak, and ye are strong: this we also pray for, even your perfecting.

WEY:

and it is a joy to us when we are powerless, but you are strong. This we also pray for--the perfecting of your characters.

WBS:

For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.

WEB:

For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. And this we also pray for, even your perfecting.

YLT:

for we rejoice when we may be infirm, and ye may be powerful; and this also we pray for -- your perfection!

2 Corinthians 13:9 Cross References

XREF:

1 Corinthians 1:10 Now I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all agree and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be made complete in the same mind and in the same judgment.

2 Corinthians 12:10 Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

2 Corinthians 13:4 For indeed He was crucified because of weakness, yet He lives because of the power of God. For we also are weak in Him, yet we will live with Him because of the power of God directed toward you.

2 Corinthians 13:11 Finally, brethren, rejoice, be made complete, be comforted, be like-minded, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.

Ephesians 4:12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ;

1 Thessalonians 3:10 as we night and day keep praying most earnestly that we may see your face, and may complete what is lacking in your faith? (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

13:9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, [even] your {d} perfection.
(d) That all things may be in good order among you, and the members of the church restored into their place, which have been shaken and are out of place.

WES:

13:9 For we rejoice when we are weak - When we appear so, having no occasion to show our apostolic power. And this we wish, even your perfection - In the faith that worketh by love.

MHC:

13:7-10 The most desirable thing we can ask of God, for ourselves and our friends, is to be kept from sin, that we and they may not do evil. We have far more need to pray that we may not do evil, than that we may not suffer evil. The apostle not only desired that they might be kept from sin, but also that they might grow in grace, and increase in holiness. We are earnestly to pray to God for those we caution, that they may cease to do evil, and learn to do well; and we should be glad for others to be strong in the grace of Christ, though it may be the means of showing our own weakness. let us also pray that we may be enabled to make a proper use of all our talents.

CONC:

Characters Complete Feeble Glad Improvement Infirm Joy Ourselves Perfecting Perfection Powerful Powerless Prayer Rejoice Strong Weak Whenever Wish

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