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2 Corinthians 6:12 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" 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,"
2 Corinthians 6:5
"In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;"
2 Corinthians 6:6
"By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,"
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