11 [a]O Corinthians, our mouth is [b]open unto you, our heart is made large.

12 Ye are not [c]kept strait in us, but ye are kept strait in your own [d]bowels.

13 Now for the same recompense, I speak as to my children, Be you also enlarged.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 6:11 Going about to rebuke them, he saith first, that he dealeth with them sincerely and with an open and plain heart, and therewithall complaineth that they do not the like in loving again their Father.
  2. 2 Corinthians 6:11 The opening of the mouth and heart, betokeneth a most earnest affection in him that speaketh, as it fareth commonly with them that are in some great joy.
  3. 2 Corinthians 6:12 You are in mine heart, as in an house, and that no narrow or strait house, for I have opened my whole heart to you, but you are inwardly straitlaced to me-ward.
  4. 2 Corinthians 6:12 After the manner of the Hebrews, he calleth those tender affections which rest in the heart, bowels.

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