the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
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THE MESSAGE
2 Corinthians 6:13
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Now in a like exchange—I speak as to children—open wide to us also.
Now in a like exchange—I speak as to children—open wide to us also.
I feel like a father who has given everything to his kids, but they show no gratitude or love. Pop your dallies on whatever is holding you back and open your hearts to us.
Now to give me back payment of the same sort (I am talking as to my children), let your hearts be wide open to me.
but for an answering recompense, (I speak as to children,) let *your* heart also expand itself.
I speak as to my children. As a proper response, you should also be open to us.
Now in return, I speak as to my children, you also be enlarged.
Now for a recompence of the same, (I speak as to my children) be ye also inlarged.
And in just requital--I speak as to my children--let your hearts expand also.
Nowe for a recompense in the same, (I speake as vnto my children) be ye also inlarged.
But for the same reward, I speak as to children, you also be made larger.
I speake to you, as to childre, that haue like rewarde with vs.
I address myself to you as a parent, be not you wanting in the returns of filial respect to me.
Now in the same way as a fair exchange [for our love toward you]—I am speaking as [I would] to children—open wide [your hearts] to us also.
Now for a recompense in like kind (I speak as unto my children), be ye also enlarged.
In return--I speak as to children--widen your hearts also.
I promyse you lyke rewarde with me as to my childre.
Now for a recompense in like kind (I speak as to [my] children), be also enlarged.
Now for a recompense in the same (I speak as to [my] children,) be ye also enlarged.
and [as] a recompense of the same kind, (as to children I say [it],) be ye enlarged -- also ye!
I speak to you as if you were my children. Do to us as we have done—open your hearts to us.
Now as a fair exchange—I speak as to my children—open wide your hearts to us also.
As a fair exchange, I ask you as my children: Open wide your hearts also.
I speak to you as I would speak to my own children. Please make room in your hearts for us.
So, just to be "fair" (I am using the language of children), open wide your hearts too.
In return (I speak as to children) widen your hearts also.
Nowe for the same recompence, I speake as to my children, Be you also inlarged.
I speak as to my children, render me my reward which is with you, increase your love toward me.
Now in return, I speak as to my children, you also be enlarged.
Do us a favor - I ask you as my children - and open wide your hearts.1 Corinthians 4:14;">[xr]
But as unto (my) children, I say to you, Render to me my gains which are with you, and expand your love towards me.
13 I speak as to [fn] children, Pay me the debt which ye owe, and expand your love towards me.
Now in return for the same (I speak as to children), you also be open.
I am asking you to respond as if you were my own children. Open your hearts to us!
I am speaking to you now as if you were my own children. Open your hearts wide to us! That will pay us back for what we have done for you.
Now for a recompense in like kind (I speak as unto [my] children), be ye also enlarged.
In return—I speak as to children—open wide your hearts also.
Howbeit, by way of the like recompense - as, unto children, I speak, be enlarged, even, ye.
But having the same recompense (I speak as to my children): be you also enlarged.
Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.
Now the same way in exchange (I am speaking as to children), you open wide your hearts also.
I promise you lyke rewarde as vnto children: Set your selues at large,
I speak to you as if you were my children. Do the same as we have done—open your hearts also.
Now in the same way in exchange—I am speaking as to children—open wide your hearts to us, you as well.
I speak now as though you were my children: show us the same feelings that we have for you. Open your hearts wide!
And Y seie as to sones, ye that han the same reward, be ye alargid.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
I speak: 1 Corinthians 4:14, 1 Corinthians 4:15, Galatians 4:19, 1 Thessalonians 2:11, Hebrews 12:5, Hebrews 12:6, 1 John 2:1, 1 John 2:12-14, 1 John 3:7, 1 John 3:18, 3 John 1:4
be: 2 Kings 13:14-19, Psalms 81:10, Matthew 9:28, Matthew 9:29, Matthew 17:19-21, Mark 6:4-6, Mark 11:24, James 1:6, James 1:7, 1 John 5:14, 1 John 5:15
Reciprocal: 2 Corinthians 12:15 - though
Cross-References
When the human race began to increase, with more and more daughters being born, the sons of God noticed that the daughters of men were beautiful. They looked them over and picked out wives for themselves.
This was back in the days (and also later) when there were giants in the land. The giants came from the union of the sons of God and the daughters of men. These were the mighty men of ancient lore, the famous ones.
As far as God was concerned, the Earth had become a sewer; there was violence everywhere. God took one look and saw how bad it was, everyone corrupt and corrupting—life itself corrupt to the core.
Simeon and Levi are two of a kind, ready to fight at the drop of a hat. I don't want anything to do with their vendettas, want no part in their bitter feuds; They kill men in fits of temper, slash oxen on a whim.
He said, "What do you see, Amos?" I said, "A bowl of fresh, ripe fruit." God said, "Right. So, I'm calling it quits with my people Israel. I'm no longer acting as if everything is just fine."
By faith, Noah built a ship in the middle of dry land. He was warned about something he couldn't see, and acted on what he was told. The result? His family was saved. His act of faith drew a sharp line between the evil of the unbelieving world and the rightness of the believing world. As a result, Noah became intimate with God.
Everything in the world is about to be wrapped up, so take nothing for granted. Stay wide-awake in prayer. Most of all, love each other as if your life depended on it. Love makes up for practically anything. Be quick to give a meal to the hungry, a bed to the homeless—cheerfully. Be generous with the different things God gave you, passing them around so all get in on it: if words, let it be God's words; if help, let it be God's hearty help. That way, God's bright presence will be evident in everything through Jesus, and he'll get all the credit as the One mighty in everything—encores to the end of time. Oh, yes!
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Now for a recompence in the same,.... That your love to me may answer mine to you; that as you have my heart, I may have yours, and the same room in your heart, as you have in mine. The Vulgate Latin version reads, "having the same recompence"; and the Arabic version renders it, "grant to me the same recompence"; and the Syriac version, "recompense to me my usuries that are with you"; that is, repay me with affection, let love be returned for love.
I speak as unto my children; which relation subsisting between us requires mutual affection; for as a father should love his children, so children should love their father:
be ye also enlarged; in your love to me, as I am to you; and then, as if he should say, you will bear with, and take in good part the following exhortation and advice.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Now for a recompence in the same - âBy way of recompence, open your hearts in the same manner toward me as I have done toward you. It is all the reward or compensation which I ask of you; all the return which I desire. I do not ask silver or gold, or any earthly possessions. I ask only a return of love, and a devotedness to the cause which I love, and which I endeavor to promote.â
I speak as unto my children - I speak as a parent addressing his children. I sustain toward you the relation of a spiritual father, and I have a right to require and expect a return of affection.
Be ye also enlarged - Be not straitened in your affections. Love me as I love you. Give to me the same proofs of attachment which I have given you. The idea in this verse is, that the only compensation or remuneration which he expected for all the love which he had shown them, and for all his toils and self-denials in their behalf 2 Corinthians 6:4-5, was, that they would love him, and yield obedience to the laws of the gospel requiring them to be separate from the world, 2 Corinthians 6:14-18. One ground of the claim which he had to their affection was, that he sustained toward them the relation of a father, and that he had a right to require and to expect such a return of love. The Syriac renders it well: âEnlarge your love toward me.â Tyndale renders it: âI speak unto you as unto children, which have like reward with us; stretch yourselves therefore out; bear not the yoke with unbelievers.â
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 2 Corinthians 6:13. Now for a recompense in the same — That you may, in some sort, repay me for my affection towards you, I speak to you as unto my children, whom I have a right to command, be ye also enlarged-love me as I love you.
