Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
And for the same recompense, (I speak as to children,) be ye yourselves also enlarged.
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.
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.
Williams New Testament
To pay me back, I tell you, my children, you too must stretch your hearts with love for me.
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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Word Count of 37 Translations in 2 Corinthians 6:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Afflictions Of God's Servants
12 Ye are not contracted in us, but ye are contracted in your bowels. 13 And for the same recompense, (I speak as to children,) be ye yourselves also enlarged. 14 Be not unequally yoked together with the unbelieving: for what participation to justice and iniquity and what communion to light with darkness?
Cross References
2 Kings 13:14-19
And Elisha was sick with his sickness which he will die in it. And Joash king of Israel will come down to him and weep over his face, and say, My father! my father the chariot of Israel and its horsemen
Psalm 81:10
I am Jehovah thy God bringing thee up from the land of Egypt: make broad thy mouth and I will fill it
Matthew 9:28-29
And having come into the house, the blind came to him: and Jesus says to them, Believe ye that I can do this? They say to him, Yes, Lord.
Matthew 17:19-20
Then the disciples having come to Jesus apart, said, Why could not we cast it out?
Mark 6:4-6
And Jesus said to them, That a prophet Is not unhonoured, except in his native land, and in kinsmen, and in his house.
Mark 11:24
For this I say to you, All things whatever, praying, ye ask, believe that ye receive, and it shall be to you.
1 Corinthians 4:14-15
Not shaming you, write I these, but as my beloved children I admonish you.
Galatians 4:12
Be ye as I, for I also as you, brethren, I pray you: ye injured me nothing.
Galatians 4:19
My children, for whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you,
1 Thessalonians 2:11
As ye know how each one of you, as a father his children, comforting and encouraging, and testifying,
Hebrews 12:5-6
And ye have totally forgotten the entreaty which is spoken to you as to sons, My son, neglect not the instruction of the Lord, nor be enervated being rebuked by him:
James 1:6-7
And let him ask in faith, being at variance in nothing. For he being at variance is like the surge of the sea being moved by the wind and put in motion.
1 John 2:1
My little children, I write these to you, that ye sin not. And if any sin, we have an intercessor with the Father, Jesus Christ the just:
1 John 2:12-14
I write to you, little children, for your sins are let go for his name.
1 John 3:7
Little children, let none deceive you: he doing justice is just, as he is just.
1 John 3:18
My little children, we should not love in word, neither in tongue; but in work and truth.
1 John 5:14-15
And this is the freedom of speech which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us:
3 John 1:4
I have no joy greater than these that I hear my children walking in truth.