12Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.
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O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?
Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.
For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-18)The apostle proceeds to address himself more particularly to the Corinthians, and cautions them against mingling with unbelievers. Here observe, I. How the caution is introduced with a profession, in a very pathetic manner, of the most tender affection to them, even like that of a father to his children , 2 Cor. 6:11-13. Though the apostle was happy in a great fluency of expressions, yet he seemed…
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