| Geneva Study Bible For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your {d} perfection. (d) That all things may be in good order among you, and the members of the church restored into their place, which have been shaken and are out of place. Wesley's Notes 13:9 For we rejoice when we are weak - When we appear so, having no occasion to show our apostolic power. And this we wish, even your perfection - In the faith that worketh by love. King James Translators' Notes perfection: or, reformation, or, restoration Scofield Reference Notes Margin perfection Perfecting. See Scofield Note: "Mt 5:48". Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 9. are glad-Greek, "rejoice." when we are weak-having no occasion for displaying our power; and so seeming "weak," as being compassed with "infirmities" (2Co 10:10; 11:29, 30). ye . strong-"mighty" in faith and the fruits of the Spirit. and-not in the oldest manuscripts. we wish-Greek, "pray for." your perfection-literally, "perfect restoration"; literally, that of a dislocated limb. Compare 2Co 13:11, "Be perfect," the same Greek word; also in 1Co 1:10, "perfectly joined together"; Eph 4:12, "the perfecting of the saints." Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 13:7-10 The most desirable thing we can ask of God, for ourselves and our friends, is to be kept from sin, that we and they may not do evil. We have far more need to pray that we may not do evil, than that we may not suffer evil. The apostle not only desired that they might be kept from sin, but also that they might grow in grace, and increase in holiness. We are earnestly to pray to God for those we caution, that they may cease to do evil, and learn to do well; and we should be glad for others to be strong in the grace of Christ, though it may be the means of showing our own weakness. let us also pray that we may be enabled to make a proper use of all our talents. | 
