9For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.
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Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.
Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-10)Here we have, I. The apostle’s prayer to God on the behalf of the Corinthians, that they might do no evil , 2 Cor. 13:7. This is the most desirable thing we can ask of God, both for ourselves and for our friends, to be kept from sin, that we and they may do no evil; and it is most needful that we often pray to God for his grace to keep us, because without this we cannot keep ourselves. We are more…
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