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2 Corinthians 13:9
For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. We also pray for this: your becoming perfect.
2 Corinthians 13:9 · World English Bible
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2 Corinthians 13:9 in other translations
For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.
In fact, we rejoice when we are weak but you are strong, and our prayer is for your perfection.
For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. And this we also pray for, even your perfecting.
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In context
6 But I hope that you will know that we aren’t disqualified.
7 Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we may appear approved, but that you may do that which is honorable, though we may seem to have failed.
8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
9 For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. We also pray for this: your becoming perfect.
10 For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up and not for tearing down.
11 Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.
12 Greet one another with a holy kiss.
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