2Cor 13:7-10 | ESV | STEP | But we pray to God that you may not do wrong — not that we may appear to have met the test , but that you may do what is right , though we may seem to have failed .

2 Corinthians 13:7-10

7 But we pray to God that you may not do wrong—not that we may appear to have met the test, but that you may do what is right, though we may seem to have failed. 8 For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth. 9 For we are glad when ^awe are weak and you are strong. Your ^brestoration is what we pray for. 10 For this reason I write these things while I am away from you, that when I come ^cI may not have to be ^dsevere in my use of ^ethe authority that the Lord has given me for building up and not for tearing down.