2 Corinthians 6:12
Ye are not straitened in us, but are straitened in your hearts’ affections;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.
In Context
11Our mouth, is opened unto you, O Corinthians! our heart, hath become enlarged:
13Howbeit, by way of the like recompense—as, unto children, I speak, be enlarged, even, ye.
Cross References
Job 36:16Yea he might even have allured thee—out of the mouth of straitness, [into] a wide space—no narrowness there,—and, the food set down on thy table, should have been full of fatness.
Ecclesiastes 6:9Better what the eyes behold, than the wandering of desire,—even this, was vanity, and a feeding on wind.
2 Corinthians 7:2Give place to us! no one, have we wronged, no one, have we corrupted, no one, have we defrauded.
1 John 3:17But, whoso hath this world’s goods, and beholdeth his brother having, need, and shutteth up his tender affections from him, how, is, the love of God, abiding 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 →