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’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
• 3 Jn 1:4I have no greater joy than this, to hear about my children walking in truth.
• 1 Jn 2:1My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.
• 1 Jn 3:7Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
• 1 Cor 4:14–15I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
• 1 Th 2:11As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
• Ps 81:10I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
• Mark 6:4–6Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and among his own relatives, and in his own house.”
• Gal 4:12I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong,
• Mark 11:24Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.
• Matt 9:28–29When he had come into the house, the blind men came to him. Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They told him, “Yes, Lord.”
• Heb 12:5–6and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;
• 1 Jn 2:12–14I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.
• Matt 17:19–20Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, “Why weren’t we able to cast it out?”
• 2 Kgs 13:14–19Now Elisha became sick with the illness of which he died; and Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over him, and said, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”
• 1 Jn 5:14–15This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.
• Jas 1:6–7But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.
• Gal 4:19My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you —

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