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2 Corinthians 6:11

Love for others

9 As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;

10 As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.

12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.

13 Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians. Our hearts are open wide.
KJV
O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.
WEB
Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged.
ASV
Our mouth is open unto you, O Corinthians, our heart is enlarged.
DARBY
Our mouth is opened to you, Corinthians, our heart is expanded.
BLB
Our mouth has been open to you⁺, Corinthians; our heart has been enlarged.
ÅB
Vår munn er åpnet mot dere, dere korintiere, vårt hjerte har utvidet seg.
OTB
Vår munn har talt fritt til dere, korintere, vårt hjerte er vidåpent.
B1930
Vår munn er oplatt mot eder, I korintiere, vårt hjerte har utvidet sig.

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Cross references

  • Psalms 119:32

    I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.

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  • 2 Corinthians 7:3–4

    I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you.

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  • 2 Corinthians 12:15

    And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

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  • Philippians 1:8

    For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

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  • 2 Corinthians 2:4

    For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

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  • Galatians 3:1

    O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

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  • 1 Samuel 2:1

    And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.

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  • Philippians 4:15

    Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only.

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