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 3:18My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
• 3 Jn 1:4I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
• 1 Jn 2:1My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
• 1 Jn 3:7Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
• 1 Cor 4:14–15I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
• 1 Th 2:11As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,
• Ps 81:10I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
• Mark 6:4–6But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.
• Gal 4:12Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.
• Mark 11:24Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
• Matt 9:28–29And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord.
• Heb 12:5–6And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
• 1 Jn 2:12–14I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.
• Matt 17:19–20Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?
• 2 Kgs 13:14–19Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.
• 1 Jn 5:14–15And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
• Jas 1:6–7But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
• Gal 4:19My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,

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