You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.
Parallel translations
- KJV Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.
- BSB It is not our affection, but yours, that is restrained.
- NKJV You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.
- NASB You are not restrained by us, but you are restrained in your own affections.
- NLT There is no lack of love on our part, but you have withheld your love from us.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- 2 Cor 7:2Open your hearts to us. We wronged no one. We corrupted no one. We took advantage of no one.
- Mic 2:7Shall it be said, O house of Jacob: “Is Yahweh’s Spirit angry? Are these his doings? Don’t my words do good to him who walks blamelessly?”
- Phil 1:8For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
- 1 Jn 3:17But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?
- Job 36:16Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a wide place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.
- Eccl 6:9Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
- Prov 4:12When you go, your steps will not be hampered. When you run, you will not stumble.
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