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Green's Literal Translation

2 Corinthians 6:11

Our mouth is opened to you, Corinthians, our heart has been made larger.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Love;   Resignation;   Zeal, Religious;   Thompson Chain Reference - Deterioration-Development;   Enlargement;   Larger Life;   Progress, Spiritual;   Spiritual;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Heart, Character of the Renewed;   Love to Man;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Family;   Reconciliation;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Corinth;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Collection;   Mercy;   Mouth Lips;   Quotations;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Paul;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Corinthians, Second Epistle to the;   Enlarge;   Galatia;   Mouth;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
We have spoken openly to you, Corinthians; our heart has been opened wide.
King James Version (1611)
O yee Corinthians, our mouth is open vnto you, our heart is enlarged.
King James Version
O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.
English Standard Version
We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians; our heart is wide open.
New American Standard Bible
Our mouth has spoken freely to you, you Corinthians, our heart is opened wide.
New Century Version
We have spoken freely to you in Corinth and have opened our hearts to you.
Amplified Bible
We are speaking freely to you, Corinthians [we are keeping nothing back], and our heart is opened wide.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Our mouth has spoken freely to you, O Corinthians, our heart is opened wide.
Legacy Standard Bible
Our mouth has spoken freely to you, O Corinthians, our heart is opened wide.
Berean Standard Bible
We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians. Our hearts are open wide.
Contemporary English Version
Friends in Corinth, we are telling the truth when we say that there is room in our hearts for you.
Complete Jewish Bible
Dear friends in Corinth! We have spoken frankly to you, we have opened our hearts wide.
Darby Translation
Our mouth is opened to you, Corinthians, our heart is expanded.
Easy-to-Read Version
We have spoken freely to you people in Corinth. We have opened our hearts to you.
Geneva Bible (1587)
O Corinthians, our mouth is open vnto you: our heart is made large.
George Lamsa Translation
O Corinthians, we have told you everything, and our heart is relieved.
Good News Translation
Dear friends in Corinth! We have spoken frankly to you; we have opened our hearts wide.
Lexham English Bible
We have spoken freely and openly to you, Corinthians; our heart is open wide.
American Standard Version
Our mouth is open unto you, O Corinthians, our heart is enlarged.
Bible in Basic English
Our mouth is open to you, O Corinthians, our heart is wide.
Hebrew Names Version
Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged.
International Standard Version
We have spoken franklyOur mouth is open
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Etheridge Translation
OUR mouth is opened to you, Kurinthoyee, and our heart expanded.
Murdock Translation
O ye Corinthians, our mouth is opened towards you, and our heart expanded.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open vnto you, our heart is made large:
English Revised Version
Our mouth is open unto you, O Corinthians, our heart is enlarged.
World English Bible
Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
O ye Corinthians, our mouth is opened toward you, our heart is inlarged.
Weymouth's New Testament
O Corinthians, our lips are unsealed to you: our heart is expanded.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
A! ye Corynthies, oure mouth is open to you, oure herte is alargid;
Update Bible Version
Our mouth is open to you, O Corinthians, our heart is enlarged.
Webster's Bible Translation
O [ye] Corinthians, our mouth is open to you, our heart is enlarged.
New English Translation
We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians; our heart has been opened wide to you.
New King James Version
O Corinthians! We have spoken openly to you, our heart is wide open.
New Living Translation
Oh, dear Corinthian friends! We have spoken honestly with you, and our hearts are open to you.
New Life Bible
We have spoken to you who are in the city of Corinth with plain words. Our hearts are wide open.
New Revised Standard
We have spoken frankly to you Corinthians; our heart is wide open to you.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Our mouth, is opened unto you, O Corinthians! our heart, hath become enlarged:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Our mouth is open to you, O ye Corinthians: our heart is enlarged.
Revised Standard Version
Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians; our heart is wide.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
O ye Corinthyans oure mouth is open vnto you. Oure herte is made large:
Young's Literal Translation
Our mouth hath been open unto you, O Corinthians, our heart hath been enlarged!
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
O ye Corinthians, oure mouth is open vnto you, oure hert is made large.
Mace New Testament (1729)
O Corinthians, my heart is so full, my tongue cannot be silent:
THE MESSAGE
Dear, dear Corinthians, I can't tell you how much I long for you to enter this wide-open, spacious life. We didn't fence you in. The smallness you feel comes from within you. Your lives aren't small, but you're living them in a small way. I'm speaking as plainly as I can and with great affection. Open up your lives. Live openly and expansively!
Simplified Cowboy Version
Won't all you cowboys in Corinth listen? I have spoken plainly with an open heart.

Contextual Overview

11 Our mouth is opened to you, Corinthians, our heart has been made larger. 12 You are not restrained in us, but you are restrained in your own affections. 13 But for the same reward, I speak as to children, you also be made larger. 14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership does righteousness have with lawlessness? And what fellowship does light have with darkness? 15 And what agreement does Christ have with Belial? Or what part does a believer have with an unbeliever? 16 And what agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God, even as God said, "I will" dwell in them and "walk among them , and I will betheir God, and they shall be My people." Lev. 26:12; Ezek. 37:27 17 Because of this, "come out from among them" "and be separated," says the Lord, "and do not touch the unclean thing," and I will receive you. Isa. 52:11 18 "And I will be a Father to you, and you will be sons" and daughters to Me, says the Lord Almighty. 2 Sam. 7:8, 14; Isa. 43:6

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

ye: Galatians 3:1, Philippians 4:15

our mouth: 2 Corinthians 7:3, 2 Corinthians 7:4, 1 Samuel 2:1, Job 32:20, Job 33:2, Job 33:3, Psalms 51:15

our heart: 2 Corinthians 2:4, 2 Corinthians 12:15, Psalms 119:32, Habakkuk 2:5, Ephesians 6:8, Philippians 1:8, Revelation 22:12

Reciprocal: Exodus 28:30 - upon his heart Acts 8:35 - opened 1 Corinthians 4:14 - my 2 Corinthians 11:11 - because 1 Thessalonians 2:8 - affectionately

Cross-References

Genesis 6:1
And it came about that men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them.
Genesis 6:2
The sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were good, and they took wives for themselves from all those whom they chose.
Genesis 7:1
And Jehovah said to Noah, You and all your house come into the ark, for I have seen you righteous before Me in this generation.
Genesis 10:9
He was a mighty hunter before Jehovah; so it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before Jehovah.
Genesis 13:13
And the men of Sodom were evil and sinners before Jehovah, exceedingly so.
2 Chronicles 34:27
Because your heart is tender, and you were humbled before God when you heard His Words concerning this place, and concerning the ones living in it, and were humbled before Me, and have torn yourgarments and wept before Me; I have even heardalso, says Jehovah.
Psalms 11:5
Jehovah tries the righteous, but His soul hates the wicked and the one loving violence.
Psalms 55:9
Swallow up, O Lord; divide their tongue; for I see violence and strife in the city.
Psalms 140:11
Do not let a man of tongue be established in the earth; evil shall hunt the violent man, thrust upon thrust.
Isaiah 60:18
Violence shall not still be heard in your land, or wasting and ruin within your borders; but you shall call your walls, Salvation, and your gates, Praise.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

O ye Corinthians,.... The apostle having exhorted the ministers of the church at Corinth to take care of their ministry, that they fulfil it, and that it might appear that the Gospel, and gifts fitting them to preach it, were not received in vain by them; all which he strengthens and encourages by his own example; and that of others, addresses the members of the church in a very pathetic manner, saying,

our mouth is open to you; to speak our minds freely to you; we shall hide and conceal nothing from you, we shall deal with you with all plainness and faithfulness. This seems to refer unto, and pave the way for what he afterwards says about their unequal fellowship with unbelievers:

our heart is enlarged: with love to you, and eager desires after your good; and it is from the abundance of our hearts, and hearty affection for you, that our mouth is open so freely to communicate to you.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you - We speak freely, and fully. This is an affectionate address to them, and has reference to what he had just said. It means that, when the heart was full on the subject, words would flow freely, and that he had given vent to the fervid language which he had just used because his heart was full. He loved them; he felt deeply; and he spoke to them with the utmost freedom of what he had thought, and purposed, and done.

Our heart is enlarged - We have deep feelings, which naturally vent themselves in fervent and glowing language. The main idea here is, that he had a strong affection for them; a heart which embraced and loved them all, and which expressed itself in the language of deep emotion. He had loved them so that he was willing to be reproached, and to be persecuted, and to be poor, and to have his name cast out as evil. “I cannot be silent. I conceal or dissemble nothing. I am full of ardent attachment, and that naturally vents itself in the strong language which I have used.” True attachment will find means of expressing itself. A heart full of love will give vent to its feelings. There will be no dissembling and hypocrisy there. And if a minister loves the souls of his people he will pour out the affections of his heart in strong and glowing language.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Corinthians 6:11. O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you — I speak to you with the utmost freedom and fluency, because of my affection for you.

Our heart is enlarged. — It is expanded to take you and all your interests in; and to keep you in the most affectionate remembrance.

The preceding verses contain a very fine specimen of a very powerful and commanding eloquence.


 
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