Parallel Verses
NET Bible
Now as a fair exchange -- I speak as to my children -- open wide your hearts to us also.
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.
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 Our affection for you is not restricted, but you are restricted in your affections for us. 13 Now as a fair exchange -- I speak as to my children -- open wide your hearts to us also. 14 Do not become partners with those who do not believe, for what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
Cross References
2 Kings 13:14-19
Now Elisha had a terminal illness. King Joash of Israel went down to visit him. He wept before him and said, "My father, my father! The chariot and horsemen of Israel!"
Psalm 81:10
I am the Lord, your God, the one who brought you out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide and I will fill it!'
Matthew 9:28-29
When he went into the house, the blind men came to him. Jesus said to them, "Do you believe that I am able to do this?" They said to him, "Yes, Lord."
Matthew 17:19-20
Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, "Why couldn't we cast it out?"
Mark 6:4-6
Then Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown, and among his relatives, and in his own house."
Mark 11:24
For this reason I tell you, whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
1 Corinthians 4:14-15
I am not writing these things to shame you, but to correct you as my dear children.
Galatians 4:12
I beg you, brothers and sisters, become like me, because I have become like you. You have done me no wrong!
Galatians 4:19
My children -- I am again undergoing birth pains until Christ is formed in you!
1 Thessalonians 2:11
As you know, we treated each one of you as a father treats his own children,
Hebrews 12:5-6
And have you forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as sons? "My son, do not scorn the Lord's discipline or give up when he corrects you.
James 1:6-7
But he must ask in faith without doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed around by the wind.
1 John 2:1
(My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.) But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous One,
1 John 2:12-14
I am writing to you, little children, that your sins have been forgiven because of his name.
1 John 3:7
Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Jesus is righteous.
1 John 3:18
Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth.
1 John 5:14-15
And this is the confidence that we have before him: that whenever we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
3 John 1:4
I have no greater joy than this: to hear that my children are living according to the truth.