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 giving no occasion by disobedience for displaying our power; so we seeming "weak," being compassed with "infirmities" (2 Corinthians 10:10; 2 Corinthians 11:29-30).
Ye are strong - "mighty" in faith and the fruits of the Spirit.
And, х de (G1161)]. So C. Not in 'Aleph (') A B Delta f g, Vulgate.
We wish - Greek, 'pray for.'
Your perfection, х katartisin (G2676)] - 'perfect restoration;' literally, that of a dislocated limb. Compare 2 Corinthians 13:11, "Be perfect" х katartizesthe (G2675)], a kindred word; also in 1 Corinthians 1:10; Ephesians 4:12.