2 Corinthians 6:12
Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.
In Context
11O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open to you, our heart is enlarged.
13Now for a recompense in the same (I speak as to my children,) be ye also enlarged.
Cross References
Job 36:16Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be 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 is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
2 Corinthians 7:2Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.
1 John 3:17But he who hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love 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 →