2 Corinthians 6:12 — Meaning and Application

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“Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.”

2 Corinthians 6:12

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As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and {yet} possessing all things.

O {ye} Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.

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

Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto {my} children,) be ye also enlarged.

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

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2 Corinthians 6:1

"We then, {as} workers together {with him}, beseech {you} also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain."

2 Corinthians 6:2

"(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now {is} the accepted time; behold, now {is} the day of salvation.)"

2 Corinthians 6:3

"Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:"

2 Corinthians 6:4

"But in all {things} approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, {approving: Gr. commending}"

2 Corinthians 6:5

"In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; {in tumults: or, in tossings to and fro}"

2 Corinthians 6:6

"By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,"

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