Parallel Verses
Williams New Testament
To pay me back, I tell you, my children, you too must stretch your hearts with love for me.
New American Standard Bible
Now in a like
King James Version
Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.
Holman Bible
I speak as to my children. As a proper response, you should also be open to us.
International Standard Version
Do us a favor I ask you as my children and open wide your hearts.
A Conservative Version
But I speak the same recompense as to children, be ye also enlarged.
American Standard Version
Now for a recompense in like kind (I speak as unto my children), be ye also enlarged.
Amplified
Now in the same way as a fair exchange [for our love toward you]—I am speaking as [I would] to children—open wide [your hearts] to us also.
An Understandable Version
I am speaking to you as my [spiritual] children; open up [your hearts] to me in return.
Anderson New Testament
That you may repay me in like manner, (I speak as to children,) be you also enlarged.
Bible in Basic English
Now to give me back payment of the same sort (I am talking as to my children), let your hearts be wide open to me.
Common New Testament
Now in a fair exchangeI speak as to my childrenopen wide your hearts also.
Daniel Mace New Testament
I address myself to you as a parent, be not you wanting in the returns of filial respect to me.
Darby Translation
but for an answering recompense, (I speak as to children,) let your heart also expand itself.
Godbey New Testament
But as I speak to children, you indeed receive this reward.
Goodspeed New Testament
To pay me back, I tell you, my children, you must open your hearts too.
John Wesley New Testament
Now for a recompence of the same, (I speak as to my children) be ye also inlarged.
Julia Smith Translation
And for the same recompense, (I speak as to children,) be ye yourselves also enlarged.
King James 2000
Now in return for the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be you also enlarged in heart.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Now the same [way] [in] exchange (I am speaking as to children), you open wide [your hearts] also.
Modern King James verseion
But for the same reward, (I speak as to children), you also be enlarged.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I promise you like reward with me, as to my children.
Moffatt New Testament
A fair exchange now, as the children say! Open your hearts wide to me.
Montgomery New Testament
I pray you, therefore, in fair exchange (I speak as to my children), let your hearts also be wide open to me.
NET Bible
Now as a fair exchange -- I speak as to my children -- open wide your hearts to us also.
New Heart English Bible
Now in return, I speak as to my children, you also be open wide.
Noyes New Testament
So then in return, I speak to you as children, let your hearts be enlarged.
Sawyer New Testament
and now as a return of benefits, I speak as to children, do you also be enlarged.
The Emphasized Bible
Howbeit, by way of the like recompense - as, unto children, I speak, be enlarged, even, ye.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Let us have a like return; I speak as unto children; be ye also enlarged.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Can you not in return--I appeal to you as I should to children--open your hearts to us?
Webster
Now for a recompense in the same (I speak as to my children,) be ye also enlarged.
Weymouth New Testament
And in just requital--I speak as to my children--let your hearts expand also.
World English Bible
Now in return, I speak as to my children, you also be open wide.
Worrell New Testament
Now, for a recompense in like kind (I am speaking as to my children), be ye also enlarged.
Worsley New Testament
Now as a return of our love (I speak as to my children) be ye also enlarged towards us.
Youngs Literal Translation
and as a recompense of the same kind, (as to children I say it,) be ye enlarged -- also ye!
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References
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Word Count of 37 Translations in 2 Corinthians 6:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Afflictions Of God's Servants
12 You are not squeezed into a tiny corner in my heart, but you are in your own affections. 13 To pay me back, I tell you, my children, you too must stretch your hearts with love for me. 14 Stop forming intimate and inconsistent relations with unbelievers. What partnership can right-doing have with law-breaking, or how can light participate with darkness?
Cross References
Matthew 9:28-29
After He had gone into the house, and the blind men had gone up to Him, Jesus said to them, "Do you really believe that I can do this?" They said to Him, "Yes, Lord."
Matthew 17:19-20
After that the disciples came to Jesus and privately asked, "Why is it we could not drive it out?"
Mark 6:4-6
But Jesus said to them, "A prophet never fails to be honored except in his native neighborhood, among his kinsmen, and in his own home."
Mark 11:24
So then I tell you, whenever you pray and ask for anything, have faith that it has been granted you, and you will get it.
1 Corinthians 4:14-15
I do not write this to make you blush with shame but to give you counsel as my dear children.
Galatians 4:12
I beg you, brothers, take my point of view, just as I took yours. You did me no injustice then.
Galatians 4:19
O my dear children, I am suffering a mother's birth pangs for you again, until Christ is formed in you.
1 Thessalonians 2:11
for you know how, as a father deals with his children, we used to encourage you, cheer you on, and charge each of you
Hebrews 12:5-6
and you have forgotten the encouragement which is addressed to you as sons: "My son, refrain from thinking lightly of the discipline the Lord inflicts, and giving up when you are corrected by Him.
James 1:6-7
But he must ask in faith, without a doubt, for the man who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is whirled and swayed by the wind.
1 John 2:1
My dear children, I am writing you this so that you may not sin; yet if anyone ever sins, we have One who pleads our case with the Father, Jesus Christ, One who is righteous.
1 John 2:12-14
I am writing to you, dear children, because for His sake your sins have been forgiven.
1 John 3:7
Dear children, avoid letting anyone lead you astray. Whoever practices doing right is upright, just as He is upright.
1 John 3:18
Dear children, let us stop loving with words or lips alone, but let us love with actions and in truth.
1 John 5:14-15
And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask for anything that is in accordance with His will, He will listen to us.
3 John 1:4
I have no greater spiritual blessing than this, to hear that my children are living by the truth.