2 Corinthians 6:12

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own affections.

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Stable, longstanding scholarly text

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Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Mic 2:7 : 7 Shall it be said, O house of Jacob, Is the Spirit of Jehovah straitened? are these his doings? Do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?
2 Cor 7:2 : 2 Open your hearts to us: we wronged no man, we corrupted no man, we took advantage of no man.
Phil 1:8 : 8 For God is my witness, how I long after you all in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
1 John 3:17 : 17 But whoso {G302} hath the world's goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him?
Job 36:16 : 16 Yea, he would have allured thee out of distress Into a broad place, where there is no straitness; And that which is set on thy table would be full of fatness.
Prov 4:12 : 12 When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; And if thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
Eccl 6:9 : 9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

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2 Cor 6:10-11
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10as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and [yet] possessing all things.
11Our mouth is open unto you, O Corinthians, our heart is enlarged.
2 Cor 6:13
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13Now for a recompense in like kind (I speak as unto [my] children), be ye also enlarged.
Phlm 1:7-8
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7For I had much joy and comfort in thy love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through thee, brother.
8Wherefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to enjoin thee that which is befitting,
2 Cor 7:2-5
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2Open your hearts to us: we wronged no man, we corrupted no man, we took advantage of no man.
3I say it not to condemn [you]: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die together and live together.
4Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying on your behalf: I am filled with comfort, I overflow with joy in all our affliction.
5For even when we were come into Macedonia our flesh had no relief, but [we] [were] afflicted on every side; without [were] fightings, within [were] fears.
2 Cor 10:13-16
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13But we will not glory {G1519} {G3588} beyond [our] measure, but according to the measure of the province which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even unto you.
14For we stretch not ourselves overmuch, as though we reached not unto you: for we came even as far as unto you in the gospel of Christ:
15not glorying {G1519} {G3588} beyond [our] measure, [that is,] in other men's labors; but having hope that, as your faith groweth, we shall be magnified in you according to our province unto [further] abundance,
16so as to preach the gospel even unto the parts beyond you, [and] not to glory in another's province in regard of things ready to our hand.
2 Cor 8:13-14
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13For [I say] not [this] that others may be eased [and] ye distressed;
14but by equality: your abundance [being a supply] at this present time for their want, that their abundance also may become [a supply] for your want; that there may be equality:
2 Cor 2:4-5
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4For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly unto you.
5But if any hath caused sorrow, he hath caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I press not too heavily) to you all.
Phlm 1:12
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12whom I have sent back to thee {G1161} in his own person, that is, my very heart:
2 Cor 5:12
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12We are not again commending ourselves unto you, but [speak] as giving you occasion of glorying on our behalf, that ye may have wherewith to answer them that glory in appearance, and not in heart.
2 Cor 8:2-3
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2how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and {G2596} their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
3For according to their power, I bear witness, yea and beyond their power, [they gave] of their own accord,
Phlm 1:20
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20Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my heart in Christ.
1 Thess 2:8
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8even so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were well pleased to impart unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were become very dear to us.
2 Cor 8:7-8
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7But as ye abound in everything, [in] faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and [in] all earnestness, and {G1537} [in] your love to us, [see] that ye abound in this grace also.
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2 Cor 3:2-3
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2Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, known and read of all men;
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Phil 1:8
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8For God is my witness, how I long after you all in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
1 Thess 4:10
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24Not that we have lordship over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for in faith ye stand fast.
2 Cor 12:13-15
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13For what is there wherein ye were made inferior to the rest of the churches, except {G3361} [it be] that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this wrong.
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2 Cor 12:19
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2 Cor 1:12
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1 Thess 2:17
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17But we, brethren, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence not in heart, endeavored the more exceedingly to see your face with great desire:
2 Cor 1:8
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11See with how large letters I write unto you with mine own hand.
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Gal 4:15
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2 Cor 7:13
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Gal 5:10
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2 Cor 7:15
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Phil 2:1
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1If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassions,
Gal 4:17
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17They zealously seek you in no good way; nay, they desire to shut you out, that ye may seek them.
2 Cor 7:9
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9I now rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry unto repentance; for ye were made sorry after a godly sort, that ye might suffer loss by us in nothing.
Phil 4:10
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2 Cor 1:6
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