Parallel Verses
Weymouth New Testament
And in just requital--I speak as to my children--let your hearts expand 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.
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.
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 There is no narrowness in our love to you: the narrowness is in your own feelings. 13 And in just requital--I speak as to my children--let your hearts expand also. 14 Do not come into close association with unbelievers, like oxen yoked with asses. For what is there in common between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what partnership has light with darkness?
Cross References
Matthew 9:28-29
And when He had gone indoors, they came to Him. "Do you believe that I can do this?" He asked them. "Yes, Sir," they replied.
Matthew 17:19-20
Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and asked Him, "Why could not we expel the demon?"
Mark 6:4-6
But Jesus said to them, "There is no Prophet without honour except in his own country, and among his own relatives, and in his own home."
Mark 11:24
That is why I tell you, as to whatever you pray and make request for, if you believe that you have received it it shall be yours.
1 Corinthians 4:14-15
I am not writing all this to shame you, but I am offering you advice as my dearly-loved children.
Galatians 4:12
Brethren, become as I am, I beseech you; for I have also become like you. In no respect did you behave badly to me.
Galatians 4:19
you for whom I am again, as it were, undergoing the pains of childbirth, until Christ is fully formed within you.
1 Thessalonians 2:11
For you know that we acted towards every one of you as a father does towards his own children, encouraging and cheering you,
Hebrews 12:5-6
and you have quite forgotten the encouraging words which are addressed to you as sons, and which say, "My son, do not think lightly of the Lord's discipline, and do not faint when He corrects you;
James 1:6-7
But let him ask in faith and have no doubts; for he who has doubts is like the surge of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed into spray.
1 John 2:1
Dear children, I write thus to you in order that you may not sin. If any one sins, we have an Advocate with the Father--Jesus Christ the righteous;
1 John 2:12-14
I am writing to you, dear children, because for His sake your sins are forgiven you.
1 John 3:7
Dear children, let no one lead you astray. The man who acts righteously is righteous, just as He is righteous.
1 John 3:18
Dear children, let us not love in words only nor with the lips, but in deed and in truth.
1 John 5:14-15
And we have an assured confidence that whenever we ask anything in accordance with His will, He listens to us.
3 John 1:4
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are living in obedience to the truth.