2 Corinthians 13:8
For we do not have any power against the truth, but for the truth.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
In Context
Cross References
1 Kings 22:28And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, LORD has not spoken by me. And he said, Hear, ye peoples, all of you.
2 Kings 2:23And he went up from there to Bethel. And as he was going up by the way, there came forth young lads out of the city, and mocked him, and said to him, Go up, thou baldhead; go up, thou baldhead.
Proverbs 26:2As the sparrow in her wandering, as the swallow in her flying, so the curse that is causeless does not alight.
Mark 16:17And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will cast out demons. They will speak in new tongues.
Acts 4:28to do as many things as thy hand and thy purpose predetermined to happen.
Acts 13:3Then, having fasted and prayed and laid hands on them, they sent them away.
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 13:8-11
The Apostle Asserts His Claims. ( a. d. 57.) 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. 8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. 9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection. 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… Read the whole commentary →