2 Corinthians 6:12
Ye are not kept strait in vs, but ye are kept strait in your owne bowels.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 is open vnto you: our heart is made large.
13Nowe for the same recompence, I speake as to my children, Be you also inlarged.
Cross References
Job 36:16Euen so woulde he haue taken thee out of the streight place into a broade place and not shut vp beneath: and that which resteth vpon thy table, had bene full of fat.
Ecclesiastes 6:9The sight of ye eye is better then to walke in ye lustes: this also is vanitie, and vexation of spirit.
2 Corinthians 7:2Receiue vs: we haue done wrong to no man: we haue corrupted no man: we haue defrauded no man.
1 John 3:17And whosoeuer hath this worlds good, and seeth his brother haue neede, and shutteth vp his compassion from him, howe dwelleth the loue of God 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 →