2 Corinthians 6:12
Ye are not limited in us, but ye are limited in your bowels.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.
In Context
11O Corinthians, our mouth has been opened to you, our heart has been enlarged.
13But I speak the same recompense as to children, be ye also enlarged.
Cross References
Job 36:16Yea, he would have allured thee out of distress into a broad place, where there is no confinement, and that which is set on thy table would be full of fatness.
Ecclesiastes 6:9Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
2 Corinthians 7:2Make room for us. We wronged no man, we corrupted no man, we exploited no man.
1 John 3:17But whoever has the world's living, and sees his brother having need, and closes his bowels from him, how does the love of God abide in him?
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 6:12-18
Cautions against Mingling with Unbelievers. ( a. d. 57.) 11 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. 14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? 15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he… Read the whole commentary →