2 Corinthians 6:13

Contextual Overview

¹¹We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians, and opened wide our hearts to you. ¹¹ We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians, and opened wide our hearts to you. ¹¹ Our mouth has spoken freely to you, O Corinthians, our heart is opened wide. ¹¹Our mouth has spoken freely to you, O Corinthians, our heart is opened wide. ¹¹Won't all you cowboys in Corinth listen? I have spoken plainly with an open heart. ¹¹ Our mouth is open to you, O Corinthians, our heart is wide. ¹¹ Our mouth is opened to you, Corinthians, our heart is expanded. ¹¹ We have spoken openly to you, Corinthians; our heart has been opened wide. ¹¹ Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged. ¹¹ O ye Corinthians, our mouth is opened toward you, our heart is inlarged.

Bible Verse Review
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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

Genesis 6:1
When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them,

Genesis 6:1
When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them,

Genesis 6:1
Now it happened, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them,

Genesis 6:1
Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them,

Genesis 6:1
And it came to passe, that when men began to be multiplied in the vpper face of the earth, there were daughters borne vnto the:

Genesis 6:1
The number of people on earth continued to increase. When these people had daughters, the sons of God saw how beautiful they were. So they chose the women they wanted. They married them, and the women had their children. Then the Lord said, "People are only human. I will not let my Spirit be troubled by them forever. I will let them live only 120 years." During this time and also later, the Nephilim people lived in the land. They have been famous as powerful soldiers since ancient times.

Genesis 6:1
When men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

Genesis 6:1
And whanne men bigunnen to be multiplied on erthe, and hadden gendrid douytris,

Genesis 6:1
And it came to passe, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were borne vnto them:

Genesis 6:1
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,

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 - “By 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.”

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: “Enlarge your love toward me.” Tyndale renders it: “I speak unto you as unto children, which have like reward with us; stretch yourselves therefore out; bear not the yoke with unbelievers.”

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.