9For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.


In Context

6 But I trust that ye will know that we are not reprobates.

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 should 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 not to destruction.

11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.

2 Corinthians 13:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

13:9For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, [even] your perfection.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

13:9We are glad whenever we are weak but you are strong; and our prayer is for your perfection.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

13:9For we rejoice, when we are weak, and ye are strong: this we also pray for, even your perfecting.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

13:9For we are glad, when we are weak, and you are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

13:9For we rejoice that we are weak, and you are strong. This also we pray for, your perfection.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:9For we rejoice when we may be weak and ye may be powerful. But this also we pray for, your perfecting.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

13:9For we rejoice, when we are weak, and ye are strong: this we also pray for, even your perfecting.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:9For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. And this we also pray for, even your perfecting.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

13:9for we rejoice when we may be infirm, and ye may be powerful; and this also we pray for — your perfection!