2 Corinthians 13:8
For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
World English Bible
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 you are strong. We also pray for this: your becoming perfect.
Cross References
1 Kings 22:28Micaiah said, “If you return at all in peace, the LORD has not spoken by me.” He said, “Listen, all you people!”
2 Kings 2:23He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldy!”
Proverbs 26:2Like a fluttering sparrow, like a darting swallow, so the undeserved curse doesn’t come to rest.
Mark 16:17These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages;
Acts 4:28to do whatever your hand and your counsel foreordained to happen.
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 →