2 Corinthians 13:8

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

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7Yet I pray to God that you may do no evil; not that we may appear as having proof, but that you may do what is good, though we be as without proof.

9For we rejoice when we are weak, and you are strong. And we pray also for this―your perfection.

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Cross References

Mark 16:17And these signs shall attend those who believe. In my name they shall cast out demons; they shall speak with new tongues;

Acts 4:28to do whatever thy hand and thy counsel determined to be done.

Acts 13:3Then, after they had fasted and prayed, and laid their 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 →

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