Parallel Verses
Montgomery New Testament
For I am always glad whenever I am weak, but you are strong. For this also I am praying, for your perfect reformation.
New American Standard Bible
For we rejoice when we ourselves are
King James Version
For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.
Holman Bible
In fact, we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong.
International Standard Version
We are glad when we are weak and you are strong. That is what we are praying for your maturity.
A Conservative Version
For we are glad when we are weak and ye are strong. And this also we pray for, your full qualification.
American Standard Version
For we rejoice, when we are weak, and ye are strong: this we also pray for, even your perfecting.
Amplified
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].
An Understandable Version
For we are glad when we are weak and you are powerful. And we are also praying for your complete restoration [i.e., to spiritual maturity].
Anderson New Testament
For we rejoice when we are weak, and you are strong. And we pray also for this your perfection.
Bible in Basic English
For we are glad when we are feeble and you are strong: and this is our prayer, even that you may be made complete.
Common New Testament
For we are glad when we are weak and you are strong. What we pray for is your perfection.
Daniel Mace New Testament
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.
Darby Translation
For we rejoice when we may be weak and ye may be powerful. But this also we pray for, your perfecting.
Godbey New Testament
For we rejoice when we may be weak, and you may be strong: we are praying for even this, your perfection.
Goodspeed New Testament
I am glad to be weak, if you are strong! That is what I pray for??he perfecting of your characters.
John Wesley New Testament
For we rejoice, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.
Julia Smith Translation
For we rejoice when we be weak, and ye be able: and this also we pray, your restoration.
King James 2000
For we are glad, when we are weak, and you are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For we rejoice whenever we are weak, but you are strong, and we pray for this: your maturity.
Modern King James verseion
For we are glad when we are weak, and you are powerful. But we pray also for this, your perfection.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
We are glad when we are weak, and ye strong. This also we wish for, even that ye were perfect.
Moffatt New Testament
I am glad to be weak if you are strong; mend your ways, that is all I ask.
NET Bible
For we rejoice whenever we are weak, but you are strong. And we pray for this: that you may become fully qualified.
New Heart English Bible
For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. And this we also pray for, even your perfecting.
Noyes New Testament
For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong; this also we pray for, even your perfection.
Sawyer New Testament
For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong; and we desire this, your perfection.
The Emphasized Bible
For we rejoice - whensoever, we, are weak, and, ye, are, strong. This, also we pray for - your restoration: -
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For we rejoice when we are weak, but ye are strong: and this also we pray for, even your perfect establishment.
Twentieth Century New Testament
We are glad when we are weak, if you are strong. And what we pray for is that you may become perfect.
Webster
For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.
Weymouth New Testament
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.
Williams New Testament
I am glad to be consciously weak, if you are really strong. This is my continual prayer, the perfecting of your characters.
World English Bible
For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. And this we also pray for, even your perfecting.
Worrell New Testament
For we rejoice, when we are weak, and ye are strong; this also we pray for??our perfection.
Worsley New Testament
For we rejoice when we exert not our power, and when ye are strong: as this is what we wish, even your perfection.
Youngs Literal Translation
for we rejoice when we may be infirm, and ye may be powerful; and this also we pray for -- your perfection!
Topics
Interlinear
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but, and, now, then, also, yet, yea, so, moreover, nevertheless, for, even, , not tr
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Word Count of 37 Translations in 2 Corinthians 13:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Final Warnings To The Church At Corinth
8 For I have no power against the truth, but only in defense of the truth. 9 For I am always glad whenever I am weak, but you are strong. For this also I am praying, for your perfect reformation. 10 For this reason I am writing thus while absent, so that when I come, I may not have to deal sharply, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for pulling down.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 13:11
Finally, brothers, farewell. Aim at perfection, take courage, be of one mind, live in peace; so shall the God of love and peace be with you.
1 Thessalonians 3:10
Night and day I am praying earnestly that I may see you face to face, and may perfect whatever is yet lacking in your faith.
1 Corinthians 4:10
For Christ's sake we are fools, but you are quite philosophic in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong; you are honorable, but we are outcast.
2 Corinthians 7:1
As these promises are ours, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and of spirit, and perfect our holiness in the fear of God.
2 Corinthians 11:30
If boast I must, it shall be concerning my weakness.
2 Corinthians 12:5-10
Of such a one I will boast; but on my own behalf I will not boast except in my weaknesses.
2 Corinthians 13:7-8
And my prayer to God is that you may do no evil; not in order that I may appear approved, but that you may do what is noble, though I should seem unable to abide the proof.
Ephesians 4:12-13
in order to equip the saints for the work of serving, for the building up of the Body of Christ??13 till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to the maturity of manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.
Philippians 3:12-15
I do not say that I have already won, or am already perfect, but I am passing on to lay hold on the prize for which also Christ has laid hold of me.
Colossians 1:28
Him I am ever proclaiming, warning every one and teaching every one, in all wisdom; that I may bring every man into his presence, full grown in Christ.
Colossians 4:12
Epaphras, one of yourselves, salutes you, a slave of Christ who is always agonizing for you in his prayers, that you may stand firm, mature, and fully assured in all the will of God.
2 Timothy 3:17
so that the man of God may himself be complete, and completely equipped for every good work.
Hebrews 6:1
So let us get beyond the teaching of the elementary doctrines of Christ, and let us be borne along toward what is mature. Let us not be continually laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works,
Hebrews 12:23
to the festal assemblage and church of the firstborn, registered in heaven, to a Judge who is God of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
Hebrews 13:21
equip you in every good deed for the doing of his will, doing in you what is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory unto the ages of the ages! Amen!
1 Peter 5:10
But the God of all grace, who has called us by Christ Jesus to share his eternal glory, will, after you have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.