2 Corinthians 6:13

Like a father to his children, Paul asks the Corinthians to open their hearts wide in return. He longs for reciprocated affection.

Cross-references · 18

• 1 Jn 3:18Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.
• 3 Jn 1:4I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
• 1 Jn 2:1My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.
• 1 Jn 3:7Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Christ is righteous.
• 1 Cor 4:14–15I am not writing this to shame you, but to warn you as my beloved children.
• 1 Th 2:11For you know that we treated each of you as a father treats his own children—
• Ps 81:10I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth, and I will fill it.
• Mark 6:4–6Then Jesus said to them, “Only in his hometown, among his relatives, and in his own household is a prophet without honor.”
• Gal 4:12I beg you, brothers, become like me, for I became like you. You have done me no wrong.
• Mark 11:24Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
• Matt 9:28–29After Jesus had entered the house, the blind men came to Him. “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” He asked. “Yes, Lord,” they answered.
• Heb 12:5–6And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.
• 1 Jn 2:12–14I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven through His name.
• Matt 17:19–20Afterward the disciples came to Jesus privately and asked, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?”
• 2 Kgs 13:14–19When Elisha had fallen sick with the illness from which he would die, Jehoash king of Israel came down to him and wept over him, saying, “My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel!”
• 1 Jn 5:14–15And this is the confidence that we have before Him: If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.
• Jas 1:6–7But he must ask in faith, without doubting, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.
• Gal 4:19My children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,

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