2 Corinthians 6:12

World English Bible (2000)

You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.

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  • Mic 2:7 : 7 Shall it be said, O house of Jacob: "Is the Spirit of Yahweh angry? Are these his doings? Don't my words do good to him who walks blamelessly?"
  • 2 Cor 7:2 : 2 Open your hearts to us. We wronged no one. We corrupted no one. We took advantage of no one.
  • Phil 1:8 : 8 For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
  • 1 John 3:17 : 17 But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?
  • Job 36:16 : 16 Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a broad place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.
  • Prov 4:12 : 12 When you go, your steps will not be hampered. When you run, you will 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 chasing after wind.

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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 to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged.

  • 13Now in return, I speak as to my children, you also be open wide.

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    7For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

    8Therefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,

  • 2 Cor 7:2-5
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    2Open your hearts to us. We wronged no one. We corrupted no one. We took advantage of no one.

    3I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before, that you are in our hearts to die together and live together.

    4Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

    5For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside.

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    13But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach even to you.

    14For we don't stretch ourselves too much, as though we didn't reach to you. For we came even as far as to you with the Good News of Christ,

    15not boasting beyond proper limits in other men's labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,

    16so as to preach the Good News even to the parts beyond you, not to boast in what someone else has already done.

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    13For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,

    14but for equality. Your abundance at this present time supplies their lack, that their abundance also may become a supply for your lack; that there may be equality.

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    4For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.

    5But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I not press too heavily) to you all.

  • 12I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,

  • 12For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance, and not in heart.

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    2how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality.

    3For according to their power, I testify, yes and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord,

  • 20Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in the Lord.

  • 8Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.

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    7But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.

    8I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

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    2You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;

    3being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

  • 8We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;

  • 8For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

  • 10for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;

  • 24Not that we have lordship over your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.

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    13For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.

    14Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

    15I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

  • 19Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.

  • 7for this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith.

  • 12For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

  • 17But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,

  • 8For we don't desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

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    11See with what large letters I write to you with my own hand.

    12As many as desire to look good in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

  • 15What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.

  • 13Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

  • 10I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.

  • 15His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.

  • 1If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

  • 17They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them.

  • 9I now rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you were made sorry to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.

  • 10But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length you have revived your thought for me; in which you did indeed take thought, but you lacked opportunity.

  • 6But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.