KJV: For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.
YLT: for we rejoice when we may be infirm, and ye may be powerful; and this also we pray for -- your perfection!
Darby: For we rejoice when we may be weak and ye may be powerful. But this also we pray for, your perfecting.
ASV: For we rejoice, when we are weak, and ye are strong: this we also pray for, even your perfecting.
| χαίρομεν | We rejoice |
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Parse: Verb, Present Indicative Active, 1st Person Plural Root: χαίρω Sense: to rejoice, be glad. |
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| ἀσθενῶμεν | might be weak |
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Parse: Verb, Present Subjunctive Active, 1st Person Plural Root: ἀσθενέω Sense: to be weak, feeble, to be without strength, powerless. |
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| δὲ | however |
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Parse: Conjunction Root: δέ Sense: but, moreover, and, etc. |
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| δυνατοὶ | strong |
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Parse: Adjective, Nominative Masculine Plural Root: δυνατός Sense: able, powerful, mighty, strong. |
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| ἦτε | might be |
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Parse: Verb, Present Subjunctive Active, 2nd Person Plural Root: εἰμί Sense: to be, to exist, to happen, to be present. |
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| τοῦτο | But this |
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Parse: Demonstrative Pronoun, Accusative Neuter Singular Root: οὗτος Sense: this. |
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| καὶ | also |
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Parse: Conjunction Root: καί Sense: and, also, even, indeed, but. |
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| εὐχόμεθα | We pray for |
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Parse: Verb, Present Indicative Middle or Passive, 1st Person Plural Root: εὔχομαι Sense: to pray to God. |
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| ὑμῶν | of you |
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Parse: Personal / Possessive Pronoun, Genitive 2nd Person Plural Root: σύ Sense: you. |
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| κατάρτισιν | perfection |
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Parse: Noun, Accusative Feminine Singular Root: κατάρτισις Sense: a strengthening, perfecting of the soul. |
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Greek Commentary for 2 Corinthians 13:9
Paul had far rather be weak in the sense of failing to exercise his apostolic power because they did the noble thing. He is no Jonah who lamented when Ninevah repented. [source]
Late word from καταρτιζω katartizō to fit, to equip (see verb in 2 Corinthians 13:11). In Plutarch, only here in N.T. [source]
Practically the same as unapproved. When your good conduct deprives us of the power of administering discipline, we are weak. [source]
Only here in the New Testament. See on be perfect, 2 Corinthians 13:11. Rev., perfecting. [source]
Reverse Greek Commentary Search for 2 Corinthians 13:9
Paul identifies himself with this wing in the controversy. He means the morally strong as in 2 Corinthians 12:10; 2 Corinthians 13:9, not the mighty as in 1 Corinthians 1:26. [source]
Or pray as 2 Corinthians 13:7, 2 Corinthians 13:9; James 5:16. Lit., I was wishing; but the imperfect here has a tentative force, implying the wish begun, but stopped at the outset by some antecedent consideration which renders it impossible, so that, practically, it was not entertained at all. So Paul of Onesimus: “Whom I could have wished ( ἐβουλόμην ) to keep with me,” if it had not been too much to ask (Philemon 1:13). Paul would wish to save his countrymen, even at such sacrifice, if it were morally possible. Others, however, explain the imperfect as stating an actual wish formerly entertained. [source]
Rev., be perfected. See on Luke 6:40; see on 1 Peter 5:10. Paul speaks both of individual perfection and of the perfection of the Church through the right adjustment of all its members in Christ. Compare 1 Corinthians 1:10. The verb is kindred with perfecting, 2 Corinthians 13:9. [source]
Late and rare word (in Galen in medical sense, in papyri for house-furnishing), only here in N.T., though καταρτισις katartisis in 2 Corinthians 13:9, both from καταρτιζω katartizō to mend (Matthew 4:21; Galatians 6:1). “For the mending (repair) of the saints.” [source]
N.T.olxx. Rev. complete; but the idea is rather that of mutual, symmetrical adjustment of all that goes to make the man: harmonious combination of different qualities and powers. Comp. κατάρτισις perfecting 2 Corinthians 13:9: καταρτισμός perfecting(as accomplished), Ephesians 4:12: καταρτίσαι makeperfect or bring into complete adjustment, Hebrews 13:21. [source]
Rend. “may be able both to exhort in the sound teaching.” For δυνατὸς ableor powerful, see on 2 Timothy 1:12. Used by Paul in the phrase εἰ δυνατόν ifit be possible, Romans 12:18; Galatians 4:15: τὸ δυνατόν thatwhich is possible, Romans 9:22: of God, Romans 4:21; Romans 11:23: of men, in the ethical sense, Romans 15:1; 2 Corinthians 12:10; 2 Corinthians 13:9. [source]