2 Corinthians 6:12
Good News Translation
It is not we who have closed our hearts to you; it is you who have closed your hearts to us.

New Revised Standard Version
There is no restriction in our affections, but only in yours.

Contemporary English Version
We are not holding back on our love for you, but you are holding back on your love for us.

New American Bible
You are not constrained by us; you are constrained by your own affections.

Douay-Rheims Bible
You are not straitened in us: but in your own bowels you are straitened.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

You are not straitened in us: but in your own bowels you are straitened.

are not.

Ecclesiastes 6:9 Better it is to see what thou mayst desire, than to desire that which thou canst not know. But this also is vanity, and presumption of spirit.

*marg:

Job 36:16 Therefore he shall set thee at large out of the narrow mouth, and which hath no foundation under it: and the rest of thy table shall be full of fatness.

Proverbs 4:12 Take hold on instruction, leave it not: keep it, because it is thy life.

Micah 2:7 Speak ye not, saying: It shall not drop upon these, confusion shall not take them.

in your.

Philippians 1:8 For God is my witness how I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

1 John 3:17 He that hath the substance of this world and shall see his brother in need and shall shut up his bowels from him: how doth the charity of God abide in him?

Context
Paul's Hardships and God's Grace
11Our mouth is open to you, O ye Corinthians: our heart is enlarged. 12You are not straitened in us: but in your own bowels you are straitened. 13But having the same recompense (I speak as to my children): be you also enlarged.…
Cross References
Matthew 7:14
How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to life: and few there are that find it!

2 Corinthians 4:8
In all things we suffer tribulation: but are not distressed. We are straitened: but are not destitute.

2 Corinthians 7:2
Receive us. We have injured no man: we have corrupted no man: we have overreached no man.

2 Corinthians 6:11
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