2nd Corinthians

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2nd Corinthians Chapter 13 verse 8 Holy Bible

ASV 2ndCorinthians 13:8

For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
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BBE 2ndCorinthians 13:8

Because we are able to do nothing against what is true, but only for it.
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DARBY 2ndCorinthians 13:8

For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
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KJV 2ndCorinthians 13:8

For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
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WBT 2ndCorinthians 13:8

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WEB 2ndCorinthians 13:8

For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
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YLT 2ndCorinthians 13:8

for we are not able to do anything against the truth, but for the truth;
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 8. - We can do nothing against the truth. I am powerless against anything which is true, real, sincere; I can exercise no power except in the cause of the truth. Be true to the gospel, and you will be mighty and I shall be powerless, and (as he proceeds to say) I shall rejoice at the result.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(8) For we can do nothing against the truth.--Better, perhaps, we are powerless. Here, again, the meaning lies below the surface. The first impression which the words convey is that he is asserting his own thoroughness as a champion of the truth, so that it was a moral impossibility for him to do anything against it. The true sequence of thought, however, though it does not exclude that meaning, compels us to read much more between the lines. "Yes," he says, "we are content to seem to fail, as regards the exercise of our apostolic power to chastise offenders; for the condition of that power is that it is never exercised against the truth, and therefore if you walk in the truth, there will be no opening for its exercise." The feeling is analogous to that of Romans 9:3 : "I could wish myself accursed from Christ for my brethren's sake;" perhaps also to that of the Baptist: "He must increase, but I must decrease" (John 3:30); perhaps, yet again, to that of the patriot dying with the prayer, "May my name be without honour if only my country may be saved."