O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.
Parallel translations
- WEB Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. 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.
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Cross-references · 14
- 2 Cor 12:15And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
- 2 Cor 7:3–4I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you.
- Ps 119:32I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.
- Phil 1:8For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
- 2 Cor 2:4For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
- Rev 22:12And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
- 1 Sam 2:1And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.
- Gal 3:1O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
- Phil 4:15Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only.
- Ps 51:15O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
- Job 33:2–3Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath 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 whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.
- Hab 2:5Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:
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