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2 Corinthians 13:8 KJV
2 Corinthians · chapter 13 · verse 8
For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.2 Corinthians 13:8 · King James Version
2 Corinthians 13:8 in context
6But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
7Now 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.
8For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
9For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.
10Therefore 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 not to destruction.
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Key words (Strong's)
- nothingouno, not in direct questions expecting an affirmative answerG3756 →
- nothingtisa certain, a certain one, some, some time, a whileG5100 →
- againstkatadown from, through out, according to, toward, alongG2596 →
- truthalētheiaobjectively, what is true in any matter under consideration, truly, in truth, according…G225 →
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Here we have, I. The apostle's prayer to God on the behalf of the Corinthians, that they might do no evil, Co2 13:7. This is the most desirable thing we can ask of God, both for ourselves and for our friends, to be kept from sin, that we and they may do no evil;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 7-10