Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged.
Parallel translations
- KJV O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.
- BSB We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians. Our hearts are open wide.
- NKJV O Corinthians! We have spoken openly to you, our heart is wide open.
- NASB Our mouth has spoken freely to you, you Corinthians, our heart is opened wide.
- NLT Oh, dear Corinthian friends! We have spoken honestly with you, and our hearts are open to you.
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Quick answer
Paul speaks with open candor and an enlarged, affectionate heart toward the Corinthians. He holds nothing back in his love for them.
Overview
Having defended his ministry, Paul turns to warm, personal appeal, telling the Corinthians his mouth and heart are wide open to them. This frank, loving address sets the tone for the reconciliation he seeks. Genuine pastoral ministry is marked by openhearted affection.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 14
- 2 Cor 12:15I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?
- 2 Cor 7:3–4I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before, that you are in our hearts to die together and live together.
- Ps 119:32I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free. HEY
- Phil 1:8For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
- 2 Cor 2:4For 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.
- Rev 22:12“Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work.
- 1 Sam 2:1Hannah prayed, and said: “My heart exults in Yahweh! My horn is exalted in Yahweh. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.
- Gal 3:1Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?
- Phil 4:15You yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the Good News, when I departed from Macedonia, no assembly shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you only.
- Ps 51:15Lord, open my lips. My mouth shall declare your praise.
- Job 33:2–3See now, I have opened my mouth. My tongue has spoken in my mouth.
- Job 32:20I will speak, that I may be refreshed. I will open my lips and answer.
- Eph 6:8knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.
- Hab 2:5Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. A haughty man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.
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