2 Corinthians 6:12

Geneva Bible (1560)

Ye are not kept strait in vs, but ye are kept strait in your owne bowels.

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Referenced Verses

  • Mic 2:7 : 7 O thou that art named of the house of Iaakob, is the Spirite of the Lorde shortened? are these his workes? are not my wordes good vnto him that walketh vprightly?
  • 2 Cor 7:2 : 2 Receiue vs: we haue done wrong to no man: we haue corrupted no man: we haue defrauded no man.
  • Phil 1:8 : 8 For God is my recorde, howe I long after you all from the very heart roote in Iesus Christ.
  • 1 John 3:17 : 17 And whosoeuer hath this worlds good, and seeth his brother haue neede, & shutteth vp his compassion from him, howe dwelleth the loue of God in him?
  • Job 36:16 : 16 Euen so woulde he haue taken thee out of the streight place into a broade place and not shut vp beneath: and that which resteth vpon thy table, had bene full of fat.
  • Prov 4:12 : 12 Whe thou goest, thy gate shal not be strait, and when thou runnest, thou shalt not fall.
  • Eccl 6:9 : 9 The sight of ye eye is better then to walke in ye lustes: this also is vanitie, & vexation of spirit.

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