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2 Corinthians 13:9

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

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  1. 2 Corinthians 13:7

    Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.

  2. 2 Corinthians 13:8

    For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

  3. 2 Corinthians 13:10

    Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.

  4. 2 Corinthians 13:11

    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.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.