2 Corinthians 13:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

2 Corinthians 13:9 - Albert 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...
2 Corinthians 13:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, [even] your (d) perfection. (d) That all things may be in good order among you, and the members of the church restored in...
2 Corinthians 13:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Warnings in View of a Visit. This closing chapter starts from a vivid realisation of that which is only too likely to be the situation when he arrives for the third time. With increased emphasis, a...
2 Corinthians 13:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

also we wish . we pray for (Greek. euchomai . App-134.) also. perfection . Greek. katartisis. Only here. Compare 2 Corinthians 13:11 and App-125.
2 Corinthians 13:9 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

9. For, we rejoice. Either the causal particle γὰρ, ( for,) must be taken as meaning — therefore; or it is a second reason, why he does not refuse to be regarded as a reprobate — for...
2 Corinthians 13:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection. For we are glad, when we are weak - It will give me indescribable pleasure that I should still app...
2 Corinthians 13:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

When we are weak, &c.— "When we seem weak, by not exerting any miraculous power to the punishment of offenders; and ye are strong in gifts and graces, in faith and good works." The word καταρτι...
2 Corinthians 13:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection. We are glad - Greek, 'rejoice.' So far are we from grieving. When we are weak - you givi...
2 Corinthians 13:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Apostle announces a third visit, and exhorts them to repentance. He expresses his desire for their growth in grace. Paraphrase. '(1) This is the third visit I am about to pay you. On this occa...
2 Corinthians 13:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

For we are glad, when we are weak... — The last words cover many shades of meaning. We may think of the weakness of his bodily presence, of his physical infirmities, of the apparent failure of his...
2 Corinthians 13:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 28 CONCLUSION. 2 Corinthians 13:1-14 (R.V) THE first part of this chapter is in close connection with what precedes; it is, so to speak, the explanation of St. Paul's fear 2 Corinthia...
2 Corinthians 13:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

How to Be Built Up 2 Corinthians 13:7-14 None can really injure the truth or stop its victorious progress. As well try to stop the sunrise. We often help others most in our weakness, because th...
2 Corinthians 13:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In view of his intention to visit them again the apostle urged them to personal examination. They were to test themselves, and to prove themselves whether they were in the faith. The reason for his a...
2 Corinthians 13:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(5) Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? (6) But I trust that ye shall know th...
2 Corinthians 13:9 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

CHRISTIAN PERFECTION ‘This we also pray for, even your perfecting.’ 2 Corinthians 13:9 (R. V.) Times of revival are times of spiritual danger. Peril comes from two seemingly opposite quarter...
2 Corinthians 13:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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 exercisi...
2 Corinthians 13:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection. Ver. 9. Even your perfection ] Or, your restoration, or joining again, καταρτισιν. His meaning...
2 Corinthians 13:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Now I pray God that ye do no evil To give me occasion of showing my apostolical power; not that we should appear approved I desire not to appear approved by miraculously punishing you; but that...
2 Corinthians 13:9 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

It is essential that Paul should repeat that this was the third time he was coming to them. Such emphasis was needed to awaken proper exercise. For the second time he had not come, in order to spare...
2 Corinthians 13:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Apostle Asserts His Claims. A. D. 57. 7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that w...
2 Corinthians 13:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Some by weak here understand a moral impotency; as the apostle had said, he could not do any thing against the truth, that is, rightly and justly he could not: and by strong here, a spiritual str...
2 Corinthians 13:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘For we rejoice, when we are weak, and you are strong. This we also pray for, even your perfecting.' For his rejoicing is not in what he is or in how he is seen, for if his weakness results in their...
2 Corinthians 13:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES 2 Corinthians 13:1-13 .—[Good paraphrase, exhibiting connection of thought, from Stanley: “Once, twice, thrice, as in the Mosaic Law of the three witnesses; by my first visit—by th...
2 Corinthians 13:9 - Scofield Reference Notes

perfection Perfecting. ( See Scofield) - ( Matthew 5:48 ).
2 Corinthians 13:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Corinthians 13:1 . This is the third time I am coming to you. Compare the following texts. Acts 18:1 ; Acts 20:2-3 ; Acts 21:13 . The difficulty here is removed by the admission, that his sec...
2 Corinthians 13:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

CONCLUDING APPEALS AND EXHORTATIONS , EXPOSITION 2 Corinthians 13:1 This is the third time I am coming to you . I have thrice formed the intention, though the second time I had to...
2 Corinthians 13:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Paul appeals to his readers to stand approved of Christ:
2 Corinthians 13:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 4:10 ; 1 Peter 5:10 ; 1 Thessalonians 3:10 ; 2 Corinthians 11:30 ; 2 Corinthians 12:5-10 ; 2 Corinthians 13:11 ; 2 Corinthians 13:7 ; 2 Corinthians 13:8 ; 2 Corinthians 7:1 ;...
2 Corinthians 13:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

For we rejoice when we are weak — When we appear so, having no occasion to show our apostolic power. And this we wish, even your perfection — In the faith that worketh by love.

2 Corinthians 13:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

2 Corinthians 13:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

2 Corinthians 13:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Corinthians 13:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

2 Corinthians 13:9 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

2 Corinthians 13:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

2 Corinthians 13:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

2 Corinthians 13:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

2 Corinthians 13:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Corinthians 13:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

2 Corinthians 13:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2 Corinthians 13:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

2 Corinthians 13:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

2 Corinthians 13:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

2 Corinthians 13:9 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

2 Corinthians 13:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Corinthians 13:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Corinthians 13:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Corinthians 13:9 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

2 Corinthians 13:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 Corinthians 13:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

2 Corinthians 13:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

2 Corinthians 13:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2 Corinthians 13:9 - Scofield Reference Notes

2 Corinthians 13:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Corinthians 13:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

2 Corinthians 13:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

2 Corinthians 13:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 13:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes