2 Corinthians 6:13
Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.
2 Corinthians 6:13 in other translations
| BSB | As a fair exchange, I ask you as my children: Open wide your hearts also. |
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| WEB | Now in return—I speak as to my children—you also open your hearts. |
| ASV | Now for a recompense in like kind (I speak as unto my children), be ye also enlarged. |
| YLT | and as a recompense of the same kind, (as to children I say it,) be ye enlarged--also ye! |
| DARBY | but for an answering recompense, (I speak as to children,) let your heart also expand itself. |
| BBE | 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. |
| Webster | Now for a recompense in the same (I speak as to my children,) be ye also enlarged. |
What does 2 Corinthians 6:13 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Barnes' Notes
I speak as unto my children. I speak as a parent addressing 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 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, (2Cor 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, (2Cor 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 towards me." Tindal 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."
Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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…
2 Corinthians 6:13 in the original Greek
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Cross references for 2 Corinthians 6:13
- 1 John 3:18
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
- 3 John 1:4
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
- 1 Corinthians 4:14-15
I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you. For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
- 1 John 3:7
Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
- 1 John 2:1
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
- 1 Thessalonians 2:11
As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,
- Mark 6:4-6
But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house. And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them. And he marvelled because of their unbelief. And he went round about the villages, teaching.
- Matthew 9:28-29
And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord. Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you.
- Galatians 4:12
Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.
- Psalms 81:10
I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
- Mark 11:24
Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
- Matthew 17:19-20
Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out? And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
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Context
- 2 Corinthians 6:12
Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.
- 2 Corinthians 6:13
Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.
- 2 Corinthians 6:14
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
2 Corinthians 6:13 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Pues, para corresponder al propio modo (como á hijos hablo), ensanchaos también vosotros. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | et, en juste récompense, (je vous parle comme à mes enfants,) élargissez-vous, vous aussi. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Zur gleichen Vergeltung aber werdet auch ihr weit. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | eamdem autem habentes remunerationem, tamquam filiis dico, dilatamini et vos. |