2 Corinthians 13:8

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

"The word `truth' here refers to the gospel message which Paul preached";[18]; we ... is a reference to Paul himself along with all the other holy apostles, having this meaning: "We apostles cannot exercise our miraculous power in opposition to the truth, but always in support thereof."[19] It was a moral impossibility for Paul to use the great powers God had given him, merely for the sake of impressing the false apostles at Corinth. The reason for bringing that up here was that if the Corinthians should set things in order before Paul's arrival, there would be no startling powers displayed when Paul came. Of course, that is exactly the way Paul wanted it to be.

[18] Floyd V. Filson, The Interpreter's Bible (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1953), Vol. X, p. 421.

[19] James Macknight, op. cit., p. 471.