2 Corinthians 6:11
New International Version
We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians, and opened wide our hearts to you.

New Living Translation
Oh, dear Corinthian friends! We have spoken honestly with you, and our hearts are open to you.

English Standard Version
We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians; our heart is wide open.

Berean Standard Bible
We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians. Our hearts are open wide.

Berean Literal Bible
Our mouth has been opened to you, Corinthians; our heart has been expanded.

King James Bible
O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.

New King James Version
O Corinthians! We have spoken openly to you, our heart is wide open.

New American Standard Bible
Our mouth has spoken freely to you, you Corinthians, our heart is opened wide.

NASB 1995
Our mouth has spoken freely to you, O Corinthians, our heart is opened wide.

NASB 1977
Our mouth has spoken freely to you, O Corinthians, our heart is opened wide.

Legacy Standard Bible
Our mouth has spoken freely to you, O Corinthians, our heart is opened wide.

Amplified Bible
We are speaking freely to you, Corinthians [we are keeping nothing back], and our heart is opened wide.

Christian Standard Bible
We have spoken openly to you, Corinthians; our heart has been opened wide.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
We have spoken openly to you, Corinthians; our heart has been opened wide.

American Standard Version
Our mouth is open unto you, O Corinthians, our heart is enlarged.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Our mouth is opened to you, Corinthians, and our heart is enlarged.

Contemporary English Version
Friends in Corinth, we are telling the truth when we say there is room in our hearts for you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Our mouth is open to you, O ye Corinthians, our heart is enlarged.

English Revised Version
Our mouth is open unto you, O Corinthians, our heart is enlarged.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
We have been very open in speaking to you Corinthians. We have a place for you in our hearts.

Good News Translation
Dear friends in Corinth! We have spoken frankly to you; we have opened our hearts wide.

International Standard Version
We have spoken frankly to you, Corinthians. Our hearts are wide open.

Literal Standard Version
Our mouth has been open to you, O Corinthians, our heart has been enlarged!

Majority Standard Bible
We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians. Our hearts are open wide.

New American Bible
We have spoken frankly to you, Corinthians; our heart is open wide.

NET Bible
We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians; our heart has been opened wide to you.

New Revised Standard Version
We have spoken frankly to you Corinthians; our heart is wide open to you.

New Heart English Bible
Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged.

Webster's Bible Translation
O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open to you, our heart is enlarged.

Weymouth New Testament
O Corinthians, our lips are unsealed to you: our heart is expanded.

World English Bible
Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged.

Young's Literal Translation
Our mouth hath been open unto you, O Corinthians, our heart hath been enlarged!

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Paul's Hardships and God's Grace
10sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything. 11 We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians. Our hearts are open wide. 12It is not our affection, but yours, that is restrained.…

Cross References
Psalm 119:32
I run in the path of Your commandments, for You will enlarge my heart.

Isaiah 60:5
Then you will look and be radiant, and your heart will tremble and swell with joy, because the riches of the sea will be brought to you, and the wealth of the nations will come to you.

Ezekiel 33:22
Now the evening before the fugitive arrived, the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He opened my mouth before the man came to me in the morning. So my mouth was opened and I was no longer mute.

Acts 18:1
After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.

Acts 18:8
Crispus, the synagogue leader, and his whole household believed in the Lord. And many of the Corinthians who heard the message believed and were baptized.

2 Corinthians 7:3
I do not say this to condemn you. I have said before that you so occupy our hearts that we live and die together with you.

Galatians 4:12
I beg you, brothers, become like me, for I became like you. You have done me no wrong.


Treasury of Scripture

O you Corinthians, our mouth is open to you, our heart is enlarged.

ye.

Galatians 3:1
O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

Philippians 4:15
Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only.

our mouth.

2 Corinthians 7:3,4
I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you

1 Samuel 2:1
And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.

Job 32:20
I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.

our heart.

2 Corinthians 2:4
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

2 Corinthians 12:15
And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

Psalm 119:32
I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.

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2 Corinthians 6
1. That he has approved himself a faithful minister of Christ by his exhortations,
3. and by integrity of life,
4. and by patiently enduring all kinds of affliction and disgrace for the gospel.
10. Of which he speaks the more boldly amongst them because his heart is open to them,
13. and he expects the like affection from them again;
14. exhorting them to flee the society and pollutions of idolaters,
17. as being themselves temples of the living God.














(11) O ye Corinthians.--There was manifestly a pause here as the letter was dictated. The rush of thoughts had reached its highest point. He rests, and feels almost as if some apology were needed for so vehement an outpouring of emotion. And now he writes as if personally pleading with them. Nowhere else in the whole range of his Epistles do we find any parallel to this form of speech--this "O ye Corinthians." He has to tell them that he speaks out of the fulness of his heart, that if his mouth has been opened with an unusual freedom it is because his heart has felt a more than common expansion.

Verses 11-18. - An appeal to the Corinthians to reciprocate his love for them, and separate themselves from evil. Verse 11. - Corinthians! A rare and very personal form of loving appeal, which occurs nowhere else in these Epistles (comp. Philippians 4:15). Our mouth is open to you. St. Paul has evidently been writing in a mood of inspired eloquence. The fervour of his feelings has found vent in an unusual flow of beautiful and forcible language. He appeals to the unreserved freedom with which he has written as a reason why they should treat him with the same frank love. Our heart is enlarged. After writing the foregoing majestic appeal, he felt that he had disburdened his heart, and as it were made room in it to receive the Corinthians unreservedly, in spite of all the wrongs which some of them had done him (comp. 2 Corinthians 7:3, 27). On the antithesis of the mouth and the heart, see Matthew 12:34; Romans 10:10.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
We
ἡμῶν (hēmōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Plural
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

have spoken freely
ἀνέῳγεν (aneōgen)
Verb - Perfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 455: To open. From ana and oigo; to open up.

to
πρὸς (pros)
Preposition
Strong's 4314: To, towards, with. A strengthened form of pro; a preposition of direction; forward to, i.e. Toward.

you,
ὑμᾶς (hymas)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

Corinthians.
Κορίνθιοι (Korinthioi)
Noun - Vocative Masculine Plural
Strong's 2881: Corinthian, of Corinth. From Korinthos; a Corinthian, i.e. Inhabitant of Corinth.

Our
ἡμῶν (hēmōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Plural
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

hearts
καρδία (kardia)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 2588: Prolonged from a primary kar; the heart, i.e. the thoughts or feelings; also the middle.

are open wide.
πεπλάτυνται (peplatyntai)
Verb - Perfect Indicative Middle or Passive - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 4115: To enlarge, make broad; met: of the growth of tenderness and love. From platus; to widen.


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