the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
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2 Corinthians 13:9
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For we rejoice when we ourselves are weak but you are strong; this we also pray for, that you be made complete.
For we rejoice when we ourselves are weak but you are strong. This we also pray for, that you be restored.
We'll gladly appear weak if it makes y'all strong. Your growth is all we care about.
For we are glad when we are feeble and you are strong: and this is our prayer, even that you may be made complete.
For we rejoice when *we* may be weak and *ye* may be powerful. But this also we pray for, your perfecting.
In fact, we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. We also pray that you become fully mature.
For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. And this we also pray for, even your perfecting.
For we rejoice, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.
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.
For wee are glad when wee are weake, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, euen your perfection.
For we rejoice when we are weak and you are powerful. But we pray for this also, your perfection.
We are glad whan we are weake, & ye stronge: & the same also we wysshe for, namely yor perfectnesse.
I am therefore glad when I am disarm'd by the strength of your integrity: and this is what I pray for, even your perfection.
We are glad when we are weak [since God's power comes freely through us], but you [by comparison] are strong. We also pray for this, that you be made complete [fully restored, growing and maturing in godly character and spirit—pleasing your heavenly Father by the life you live].
For we rejoice, when we are weak, and ye are strong: this we also pray for, even your perfecting.
For we are glad when we are weak and you are strong. What we pray for is your improvement.
We are glad when we are weake and ye stronge. This also we wisshe for even that ye were perfect.
For we rejoice, when we are weak, and you are strong: this we also pray for, even your perfecting.
For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, [even] your perfection.
for we rejoice when we may be infirm, and ye may be powerful; and this also we pray for -- your perfection!
We are happy to be weak, if you are strong, and we pray that you will become complete.
For we rejoice whenever we are weak, but you are strong. And we pray for this: that you may become fully qualified.
In fact, we rejoice when we are weak but you are strong, and our prayer is for your perfection.
Even though we are weak, we are glad that you are strong, and we pray that you will do even better.
So we rejoice whenever we are weak and you are strong; indeed, what we pray for is that you become perfect.
For we are glad when we are weak and you are strong. Your restoration is what we pray for.
For we are glad when wee are weake, and that ye are strong: this also we wish for, euen your perfection.
For we are glad, when we are weak, and you are strong: and this also we pray for, that you may be perfected.
For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. And this we also pray for, even your perfecting.
We are glad when we are weak and you are strong. That is what we are praying for - your maturity.1 Corinthians 4:10; 2 Corinthians 11:30; 1 Thessalonians 3:10;">[xr]
For we rejoice when we are weak, and you are strong: but this also we pray, that you may be perfect.
And we rejoice, when we are weak and ye are strong. And this also we pray for, that ye may be perfected.
For we are glad when we are weak and you are strong. And this also we pray, that you may be made complete.
We are glad to seem weak if it helps show that you are actually strong. We pray that you will become mature.
We are glad when we are weak and you are strong. We pray that you will become strong Christians.
For we rejoice, when we are weak, and ye are strong: this we also pray for, even your perfecting.
For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. This is what we pray for, that you may become perfect.
For we rejoice - whensoever, we, are weak, and, ye, are, strong. This, also we pray for - your restoration: -
For we rejoice that we are weak and you are strong. This also we pray for, your perfection.
For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.
For we rejoice whenever we are weak, but you are strong, and we pray for this: your maturity.
For we are glad when we are weake, and ye are strong. Truely this also we wishe, euen your perfection.
We are happy to be weak if you are strong. And this is what we pray—that your lives will be made completely right again.
For we rejoice when we ourselves are weak, but you are strong; this we also pray for, that you become mature.
We are glad when we are weak but you are strong. And so we also pray that you will become perfect.
For we ioyen, whanne we ben sijk, but ye ben myyti; and we preien this thing, youre perfeccioun.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
when: 2 Corinthians 13:8, 2 Corinthians 11:30, 2 Corinthians 12:5-10, 1 Corinthians 4:10
even: 2 Corinthians 13:7, 2 Corinthians 13:11, 2 Corinthians 7:1, Ephesians 4:13, Philippians 3:12-15, Colossians 1:28, Colossians 4:12, 1 Thessalonians 3:10, 2 Timothy 3:17, Hebrews 6:1, Hebrews 12:23, Hebrews 13:21, 1 Peter 5:10
Reciprocal: Matthew 5:48 - ye 1 Corinthians 4:8 - ye did 2 Corinthians 4:12 - death 2 Corinthians 11:29 - is weak 2 Corinthians 12:10 - for when 2 Corinthians 12:20 - I shall not Philippians 1:8 - how
Cross-References
Abram said to Lot, "Let's not have fighting between us, between your shepherds and my shepherds. After all, we're family. Look around. Isn't there plenty of land out there? Let's separate. If you go left, I'll go right; if you go right, I'll go left."
So Abram left Egypt and went back to the Negev, he and his wife and everything he owned, and Lot still with him. By now Abram was very rich, loaded with cattle and silver and gold. He moved on from the Negev, camping along the way, to Bethel, the place he had first set up his tent between Bethel and Ai and built his first altar. Abram prayed there to God . Lot, who was traveling with Abram, was also rich in sheep and cattle and tents. But the land couldn't support both of them; they had too many possessions. They couldn't both live there—quarrels broke out between Abram's shepherds and Lot's shepherds. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living on the land at the time. Abram said to Lot, "Let's not have fighting between us, between your shepherds and my shepherds. After all, we're family. Look around. Isn't there plenty of land out there? Let's separate. If you go left, I'll go right; if you go right, I'll go left." Lot looked. He saw the whole plain of the Jordan spread out, well watered (this was before God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah), like God 's garden, like Egypt, and stretching all the way to Zoar. Lot took the whole plain of the Jordan. Lot set out to the east. That's how they came to part company, uncle and nephew. Abram settled in Canaan; Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent near Sodom.
The people of Sodom were evil—flagrant sinners against God .
Abram moved his tent. He went and settled by the Oaks of Mamre in Hebron. There he built an altar to God .
These court cases are an ugly blot on your community. Wouldn't it be far better to just take it, to let yourselves be wronged and forget it? All you're doing is providing fuel for more wrong, more injustice, bringing more hurt to the people of your own spiritual family.
Work at getting along with each other and with God. Otherwise you'll never get so much as a glimpse of God. Make sure no one gets left out of God's generosity. Keep a sharp eye out for weeds of bitter discontent. A thistle or two gone to seed can ruin a whole garden in no time. Watch out for the Esau syndrome: trading away God's lifelong gift in order to satisfy a short-term appetite. You well know how Esau later regretted that impulsive act and wanted God's blessing—but by then it was too late, tears or no tears.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For we are glad when we are weak,.... Appear to be so, look like persons disarmed of all power and authority; the apostles rejoiced when they had no occasion of exerting themselves, and of exercising that high office, and extraordinary commission they had received of Christ Jesus:
and ye are strong; stand fast in the doctrine of faith, and are lively and active in the exercise of the grace of faith; are strong in Christ, and in his grace, and in the power of his might, to withstand every temptation of Satan, every corruption of their own hearts, and to perform every duty aright.
And this also we wish, even your perfection; or restoration, or jointing in again; a metaphor taken from the setting of bones that are dislocated and out of joint; for the church at Corinth was like a disjointed body, and the apostle's wish was, that their animosities might cease, their divisions be healed, their disorders rectified, and each member be in its proper place, behaving as became the Gospel of Christ; see 1 Corinthians 1:10.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For we are glad when we are weak ... - We rejoice in your welfare, and are willing to submit to self-denial and to infirmity if it may promote your spiritual strength. In the connection in which this stands it seems to mean, âI am content to appear weak, provided you do no wrong; I am willing not to have occasion to exercise my power in punishing offenders, and had rather lie under the reproach of being actually weak, than to have occasion to exercise my power by punishing you for wrongdoing; and provided you are strong in the faith and in the hope of the gospel, I am very willing, nay, I rejoice that I am under this necessity of appearing weak.â
And this also we wish - I desire this in addition to your doing no evil.
Even your perfection - The word used here (καÏαÌÏÏιÏÎ¹Ï katartisis) occurs nowhere else in the New Testament, though the verb from which it is derived (καÏαÏÏιÌÎ¶Ï katartizoÌ) occurs often; Matthew 4:21; Matthew 21:16; Mark 1:19; Luke 6:40; Romans 9:22; 1 Corinthians 1:10; 2 Corinthians 13:11; Galatians 6:1; 1 Thessalonians 3:10, et al.; see the note on 2 Corinthians 13:11. On the meaning of the word see Romans 9:22. The idea of restoring, putting in order, fitting, repairing, is involved in the word âalways,â and hence, the idea of making perfect; that is, of completely restoring anything to its proper place. Here it evidently means that Paul wished their entire reformation - so that there should be no occasion for exercising discipline. Doddridge renders it, âperfect good order.â Macknight, ârestoration.â For this restoration of good order Paul had diligently labored in these epistles; and this was an object near to his heart.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 2 Corinthians 13:9. For we are glad, when we are weak — It will give me indescribable pleasure that I should still appear to be poor, despicable, and destitute of this extraordinary power with which God has clothed me, so that you be strong in all the gifts and graces of the Holy Spirit.
And this also we wish, even your perfection. — We cannot be satisfied that persons, with such eminent endowments, and who have once received the truth as it is in Jesus, should be deficient in any of the graces that constitute the mind of Christ; such as brotherly love, charity, harmony, unity, and order. I have given the above paraphrase to this verse, because of the last term καÏαÏÏιÏιν, which we render perfection. καÏαÏÏιÏιÏ, from καÏα, intensive, and αÏÏιζÏ, to fit or adapt, signifies the reducing of a dislocated limb to its proper place; and hence, as Beza says on this passage: "The apostle's meaning is, that whereas the members of the Church were all, as it were, dislocated and out of joint, they should be joined together in love; and they should endeavour to make perfect what was amiss among them, either in faith or morals."
It is a metaphor, also, taken from a building; the several stones and timbers being all put in their proper places and situations, so that the whole building might be complete, and be a proper habitation for the owner. The same figure, though not in the same terms, the apostle uses, Ephesians 2:20-22.
The perfection or rejointing which the apostle wishes is that which refers to the state of the Church in its fellowship, unity, order, c. And perfection in the soul is the same, in reference to it, as perfection in the Church is to its order and unity. The perfection or rejointing of the soul implies its purification, and placing every faculty, passion, and appetite in its proper place so that the original order, harmony, unity, and purity of the soul may be restored; and the whole builded up to be a habitation of God through the Spirit, Ephesians 2:22.
