2 Corinthians 6:13
11 We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians. Our hearts are open wide.
12 It is not our affection, but yours, that is restrained.
As a fair exchange, I ask you as my children: Open wide your hearts also.
14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
15 What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?
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.
Compare
- BSB
- As a fair exchange, I ask you as my children: Open wide your hearts also.
- KJV
- Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.
- WEB
- Now in return—I speak as to my children—you also open your hearts.
- ASV
- Now for a recompense in like kind (I speak as unto [my] children), be ye also enlarged.
- DARBY
- but for an answering recompense, (I speak as to children,) let *your* heart also expand itself.
- BLB
- Now [as] the same recompense—I speak as to children—you⁺ be enlarged also.
- ÅB
- Men like for like - jeg taler som til barn - utvid også dere deres hjerter!
- OTB
- Nå på samme måte i bytte—jeg taler som til barn—åpne også deres hjerter vidt.
- B1930
- Men like for like - jeg taler som til barn - utvid også I eders hjerter!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 John 3:18
Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.
Read in context3 John 1:4
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
Read in context1 Corinthians 4:14–15
I am not writing this to shame you, but to warn you as my beloved children.
Read in context1 John 3:7
Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Christ is righteous.
Read in context1 John 2:1
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.
Read in context1 Thessalonians 2:11
For you know that we treated each of you as a father treats his own children—
Read in contextMark 6:4–6
Then Jesus said to them, “Only in his hometown, among his relatives, and in his own household is a prophet without honor.”
Read in contextMatthew 9:28–29
After Jesus had entered the house, the blind men came to Him. “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” He asked. “Yes, Lord,” they answered.
Read in context