2 Corinthians 6:11

O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.

2 Corinthians 6:11, King James Version

2 Corinthians 6:11 in other translations

BSB	We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians. Our hearts are open wide.
WEB	Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged.
ASV	Our mouth is open unto you, O Corinthians, our heart is enlarged.
YLT	Our mouth hath been open unto you, O Corinthians, our heart hath been enlarged!
DARBY	Our mouth is opened to you, Corinthians, our heart is expanded.
BBE	Our mouth is open to you, O Corinthians, our heart is wide.
Webster	O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open to you, our heart is enlarged.

What does 2 Corinthians 6:11 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

11. mouth ... open unto you--I use no concealment, such as some at Corinth have insinuated (2Co 4:2). I use all freedom and openness of speech to you as to beloved friends. Hence he introduces here, "O Corinthians" (compare Php 4:15). The enlargement of his heart towards them (2Co 7:3) produced his openness of mouth, that is, his unreserved expression of his inmost feelings. As an unloving man is narrow in heart, so the apostle's heart is enlarged by love, so as to take in his converts at Corinth, not only with their graces, but with their many shortcomings (compare 1Ki 4:29; Psa 119:32; Is 60:5).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Barnes' Notes

Verse 11. O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you. We speak freely and fully. This is an affectionate address to them, and has reference to what he had just said. It means, that when the heart was full on the subject, words would flow freely, and that he had given vent to the fervid language which he had just used because his heart was full. He loved them; he felt deeply; and he spoke to them with the utmost freedom of what he had thought, and purposed, and done.

Our heart is enlarged. We have deep feelings, which naturally vent themselves in fervent and glowing language. The main idea here is, that he had a strong affection for them; a heart which embraced and loved them all, and which expressed itself in the language of deep emotion, he had loved them so that he was willing to be reproached, and to be persecuted, and to be poor, and to have his name cast out as evil. "I cannot be silent. I conceal or dissemble nothing. I am full of ardent attachment, and that naturally vents itself in the strong language which I have used." True attachment will find means of expressing itself. A heart full of love will give vent to its feelings. There will be no dissembling and hypocrisy there. And if a minister loves the souls of his people, he will pour out the affections of his heart in strong and glowing language.

Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 11 O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you - I speak to you with the utmost freedom and fluency, because of my affection for you. Our heart is enlarged - It is expanded to take you and all your interests in; and to keep you in the most affectionate remembrance. The preceding verses contain a very fine specimen of a very powerful and commanding eloquence.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Corinthians 6:11-18

It is wrong for believers to join with the wicked and profane. The word unbeliever applies to all destitute of true faith. True pastors will caution their beloved children in the gospel, not to be unequally yoked. The fatal effects of neglecting Scripture precepts as to marriages clearly appear. Instead of a help meet, the union brings a snare. Those whose cross it is to be unequally united, without their wilful fault, may expect consolation under it; but when believers enter into such unions, against the express warnings of God's word, they must expect must distress. The caution also extends to common conversation. We should not join in friendship and acquaintance with wicked men and unbelievers. Though we cannot wholly avoid seeing and hearing, and being with such, yet we should never choose them for friends. We must not defile ourselves by converse with those who defile themselves with sin. Come out from the workers of iniquity, and separate from their vain and sinful pleasures and pursuits; from all conformity to the corruptions of this present evil world. If it be an envied privilege to be the son or daughter of an earthly prince, who can express the dignity and happiness of being sons and daughters of the Almighty?

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

2 Corinthians 6:11 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

ΤὸToTheG3588

στόμαstomamouthG4750

ἡμῶνhēmōnof usG3165

ἀνέῳγενaneōgenhas been openedG455

πρὸςprostoG4314

ὑμᾶς,humasyou,G4771

Κορίνθιοι,KorinthioiCorinthians,G2881

ἡhētheG3588

καρδίαkardiaheartG2588

ἡμῶνhēmōnof usG3165

πεπλάτυνται·peplatuntaihas been expanded;G4115

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Cross references for 2 Corinthians 6:11

Psalms 119:32
I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.
2 Corinthians 7:3-4
I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you. Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.
2 Corinthians 12:15
And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
Philippians 1:8
For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 2:4
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
Galatians 3:1
O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
1 Samuel 2:1
And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the Lord, mine horn is exalted in the Lord: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.
Philippians 4:15
Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only.
Revelation 22:12
And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
Job 32:20
I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.
Psalms 51:15
O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
Habakkuk 2:5
Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

ye.
Ga 3:1; Php 4:15
our mouth.
7:3,4; 1Sa 2:1; Job 32:20; 33:2,3; Ps 51:15
our heart.
2:4; 12:15; Ps 119:32; Hab 2:5; Eph 6:8; Php 1:8; Re 22:12

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Context

2 Corinthians 6:10
As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
2 Corinthians 6:11
O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.
2 Corinthians 6:12
Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.

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2 Corinthians 6:11 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Nuestra boca está abierta á vosotros, oh Corintios: nuestro corazón es ensanchado.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Notre bouche est ouverte pour vous, ô Corinthiens! notre cœur s’est élargi:
German Elberfelder 1871	Unser Mund ist zu euch aufgetan, ihr Korinther; unser Herz ist weit geworden.
Latin Clementine Vulgate	Os nostrum patet ad vos, o Corinthii; cor nostrum dilatatum est.