2 Corinthians 13:8
Because we are able to do nothing against what is true, but only for it.
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In The King James Version
For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
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Cross References
1 Kings 22:28And Micaiah said, If you come back at all in peace, the Lord has not sent his word by me.
2 Kings 2:23Then from there he went up to Beth-el; and on his way, some little boys came out from the town and made sport of him, crying, Go up, old no-hair! go up, old no-hair!
Proverbs 26:2As the sparrow in her wandering and the swallow in her flight, so the curse does not come without a cause.
Mark 16:17And these signs will be with those who have faith: in my name they will send out evil spirits; and they will make use of new languages;
Acts 4:28To do that which had been fixed before by your hand and your purpose.
Acts 13:3Then, after prayer and going without food they put their hands on them, and 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 →