2 Corinthians 13:8
For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.
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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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1 Kings 22:28And Micaiah said, “If you will have returned in peace, the Lord has not spoken through me.” And he said, “May all the people hear it.”
2 Kings 2:23Then he went up from there into Bethel. And as he was ascending along the way, little boys departed from the city. And they were mocking him, saying: “Go up, bald head! Go up, bald head!”
Proverbs 26:2Like a bird flying away to another place, and like a sparrow that hurries away freely, so also a curse uttered against someone without cause will pass away.
Mark 16:17Now these signs will accompany those who believe. In my name, they shall cast out demons. They will speak in new languages.
Acts 4:28to do what your hand and your counsel had decreed would be done.
Acts 13:3Then, fasting and praying and imposing their hands upon 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 →