2 Corinthians 13:8
For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
In Context
9For we rejoice, when we are weak, and ye are strong: this we also pray for, even your perfecting.
Cross References
1 Kings 22:28And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, Jehovah hath not spoken by me. And he said, Hear, ye peoples, all of you.
2 Kings 2:23And he went up from thence unto Beth-el; and as he was going up by the way, there came forth young lads out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto 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 alighteth not.
Mark 16:17And these signs shall accompany them that believe: in my name shall they cast out demons; they shall speak with new tongues;
Acts 4:28to do whatsoever thy hand and thy council foreordained to come to pass.
Acts 13:3Then, when 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 →