But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
Perfect ... This verb is the same that is used of "preparing" the earthly body for the incarnation of Christ in  Hebrews 10:5;[30] and is therefore strongly suggestive of other passages in the New Testament where total and absolute perfection is the obvious meaning, as in  Matthew 5:48.  However, there is another scriptural meaning of it.  It is the "word for mending nets (Mark 1:19) or setting a broken bone"[31] and this is the meaning that many commentators prefer.  This writer cannot resist the conviction, however, that "the absolute perfection of Christians in Christ" is what this speaks of.  The very proximity of the phrase "in Christ" seems to suggest this.  For discussion of the whole theology of perfection, see in my Commentary on Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, and Colossians, pp. 130-133.  Taking the word in the other sense also yields some very beautiful thoughts, as in Barclay, who understood it to mean "restore," as Moffatt translated it.  He wrote as an illustration of the thought: