2 Corinthians 13:8

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2 Corinthians 13:8

For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

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For this reason I am writing these things while absent, so that when present I need not use severity, in accordance with the authority which the Lord gave me for building up and not for tearing down.

For even if I boast somewhat further about our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for destroying you, I will not be put to shame,

Moses said, “By this you shall know that the Lord has sent me to do all these deeds; for this is not my doing.

Micaiah said, “If you indeed return safely the Lord has not spoken by me.” And he said, “Listen, all you people.”

Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him, and behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. And he said to him, “O man of God, the king says, ‘Come down.’”

Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, young lads came out from the city and mocked him and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead!”

There is no wisdom and no understanding
And no counsel against the Lord.

Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying,
So a curse without cause does not alight.

But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him, for there is no one who will perform a miracle in My name, and be able soon afterward to speak evil of Me.

These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues;

John answered and said, “Master, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name; and we tried to prevent him because he does not follow along with us.”

to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose predestined to occur.

But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property,

Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.

God was performing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul,

In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are assembled, and I with you in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,

Among these are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan, so that they will be taught not to blaspheme.

how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? After it was at the first spoken through the Lord, it was confirmed to us by those who heard,