For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. We also pray for this: your becoming perfect.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
2 Corinthians 13:9 in context
2 Corinthians 13:6–12
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But I hope that you will know that we aren’t disqualified.
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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.
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For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
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For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. We also pray for this: your becoming perfect.
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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.
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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.
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Greet one another with a holy kiss.
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