John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 13:8
For we can do nothing against the truth ,.... The apostles had no power, nor could they, nor did they desire to exercise any against such who received the truth of the Gospel in the love of it; who continued in it, walked in it, and held it fast; who worshipped God in Spirit and in truth, and who walked uprightly, and as became the truth; for as the law is not made for such persons, but the reverse, so the authority the apostles had received from Christ was not to be exercised upon such: ... read more
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 13:7
Now l pray to God ,.... A strong mark of the apostle's affection for them. For though they used him so ill, he took every way and method to do them good; he not only wrote to them, sent the brethren to them, but put up his supplications at the throne of grace for them: The Alexandrian copy, the Vulgate Latin, and Ethiopic versions, read, "we pray", &c.; And one of his petitions for them was, that ye do no evil ; which, though impracticable and impossible, considering the situation of... read more