2 Corinthians 6:12
You are not narrowed by us, but it is by your own inner selves that you are narrowed.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.
In Context
11Our mouth is open to you, O Corinthians; our heart is enlarged.
Cross References
Job 36:16Therefore, he will save you from the narrow mouth very widely, even though it has no foundation under it. Moreover, your respite at table will be full of fatness.
Ecclesiastes 6:9It is better to see what you desire, than to desire what you cannot know. But this, too, is emptiness and a presumption of spirit.
2 Corinthians 7:2Consider us. We have injured no one; we have corrupted no one; we have defrauded no one.
1 John 3:17Whoever possesses the goods of this world, and sees his brother to be in need, and yet closes his heart to him: in what way 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 →