Each of us must please our neighbor for the good purpose of building up the neighbor.
2 Corinthians 13:9 - New Revised Standard Version For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. This is what we pray for, that you may become perfect. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For we are glad when we are weak (unapproved) and you are really strong. And this we also pray for: your all-round strengthening and perfecting of soul. American Standard Version (1901) For we rejoice, when we are weak, and ye are strong: this we also pray for, even your perfecting. Common English Bible We are happy when we are weak but you are strong. We pray for this: that you will be made complete. Catholic Public Domain Version For we rejoice that we are weak, while you are strong. This is also what we pray for: your perfection. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For we rejoice that we are weak, and you are strong. This also we pray for, your perfection. |
Each of us must please our neighbor for the good purpose of building up the neighbor.
Now I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you be in agreement and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same purpose.
We are fools for the sake of Christ, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute.
Finally, brothers and sisters, farewell. Put things in order, listen to my appeal, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
For he was crucified in weakness, but lives by the power of God. For we are weak in him, but in dealing with you we will live with him by the power of God.
Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and of spirit, making holiness perfect in the fear of God.
It is he whom we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone in all wisdom, so that we may present everyone mature in Christ.
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you. He is always wrestling in his prayers on your behalf, so that you may stand mature and fully assured in everything that God wills.
Night and day we pray most earnestly that we may see you face to face and restore whatever is lacking in your faith.
so that everyone who belongs to God may be proficient, equipped for every good work.
and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,
make you complete in everything good so that you may do his will, working among us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
Therefore let us go on toward perfection, leaving behind the basic teaching about Christ, and not laying again the foundation: repentance from dead works and faith toward God,
And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, support, strengthen, and establish you.