Dear friends in Corinth! Paul wants them to know that he has spoken frankly to them in the past, and is doing so now! Paul and the others had opened wide their hearts to the Corinthians, and they were still open!!! If there is an obstacle in Paul's relationship with the Corinthians, he is still open to them and he is still their friend!!!
Verse 2 Corinthians 6:11. _O YE CORINTHIANS, OUR MOUTH IS OPEN UNTO YOU_] I speak to you with the utmost _freedom_ and _fluency_, because of my affection for you. _OUR HEART IS ENLARGED._] It is expa...
O YE CORINTHIANS, OUR MOUTH IS OPEN UNTO YOU - We speak freely, and fully. This is an affectionate address to them, and has reference to what he had just said. It means that, when the heart was full o...
7. THE EXAMPLE OF THE APOSTLE PAUL; HIS TESTINGS AND TRIALS. CHAPTER 6:1-13 He beseeches the Corinthians as coworkers, in view of the ministry of reconciliation, not to receive this grace of God in v...
2 Corinthians 6:11 to 2 Corinthians 7:16. THE RESTORED RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PAUL AND THE CORINTHIANS MUST BE SEALED BY PROOF OF THEIR LOYALTY. 2 Corinthians 6:11. The openness of his speech
My dear Corinthians, we have spoken to you without keeping anything back. Our heart lies wide open to you. If there is any constraint between us, it lies, not in us, but in your hearts. Give me fair e...
AMBASSADOR FOR CHRIST (2 Corinthians 5:20-21 ; 2 Corinthians 6:1-2)...
OUR MOUTH, &c.. Hebraism for speaking with liberty. Compare Judges 11:35; Psalms 78:2; Psalms 109:2.Proverbs 8:6;...
7:1. Such a Ministry demands a suitable response on the part of those on whose behalf it is exercised 11. _our mouth is open unto you_ i.e. we have spoken with perfect frankness on all points, keepin...
11–13. Transition from the impassioned statement in 2 Corinthians 6:3-10 to the exhortations in 2 Corinthians 6:14 ff., which take up the exhortation in 2 Corinthians 6:1....
Ἡ ΚΑΡΔΊΑ ἩΜΩ͂Ν (CDFGKLP) rather than ἡ καρδία ὑμῶν (אB). 11. ΤῸ ΣΤΌΜΑ ἩΜΩ͂Ν�. Not ‘is opened,’ but ‘is open, stands open.’ Comp. John 1:51. With his usual frankness, he tells the inmost workings of h...
_AN OPEN HEART OF LOVE 2 CORINTHIANS 6:11-13:_ Paul and his fellow preachers had freely spoken the gospel to the Corinthians. He had used the same kind of openness and freedom as he discussed problems...
ΣΤΌΜΑ (G4750) рот. ΆΝΈΩΓΕΝ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΑΝΟΊΓΩ (G455) открывать; perf. быть открытым, оставаться открытым. Эта фраза значит: "я говорю с вами откровенно, от всего сердца, ничего из моей жизни...
DISCOURSE: 2027 EFFECTS OF THE GOSPEL IN ENLARGING THE HEART 2 Corinthians 6:11. _O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged. Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straiten...
O YE CORINTHIANS,— Another argument made use of by St. Paul, to justify and excuse his plainness of speech to the Corinthians, is the great affection that he has for them; into an expression whereof h...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 2 In Actions (2 Corinthians 6:3-13) 3We put no obstacle in any one's way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry, 4but as servants of God we commend ourselves in...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Scripture The Plea For Acceptance_ 2 Corinthians 6:11-18 Our mouth is open unto you, O Corinthians, our heart is enlarged. 12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened...
O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged. MOUTH IS OPEN UNTO YOU. I use no concealment, as some have insinuated (), but all openness of speech to you as to beloved friend...
16 Paul had been proclaiming the kingdom, with Christ and the nation which is related to Him by physical ties at its head. Entrance into that kingdom was by a birth from above. But now the figure of b...
6:11 expanded. (a-11) I do not say 'enlarged,' because it would lead one to suppose that his heart had been narrow. He had been driven in, as it were, by their evil, and now opened out and expanded....
I, 2. PARAPHRASE. 'Now it is as coöperators with God in this work that we exhort you not to make the grace of God fruitless in your life by continuing in sin. (2) For God has told us in Scripture of a...
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 6 V1 As people who work with God, we ask you this again and again. ‘Do not receive God’s kindness in such a way that it d...
O YE CORINTHIANS. — There was manifestly a pause here as the letter was dictated. The rush of thoughts had reached its highest point. He rests, and feels almost as if some apology were needed for so v...
CHAPTER 17 THE SIGNS OF AN APOSTLE. 2 Corinthians 6:1 (R.V) THE ministry of the Gospel is a ministry of reconciliation; the preacher of the Gospel is primarily an evangelist. He has to proclaim that...
τὸ στόμα ἡμῶν κ. τ. λ.: _our mouth is open_ (ἀνέῳγα = ἀνέωγμαι, as often in later Greek; observe its _present_ signification, as at 1 Corinthians 16:9) _unto you, O Corinthians, i.e._, I am speaking q...
AFFECTIONATE DECLARATION OF HIS FRANKNESS AND SYMPATHY, AND AN APPEAL THAT THE CORINTHIANS SHOULD SHOW THE SAME....
SEPARATE FROM ALL UNCLEANNESS 2 Corinthians 6:11; 2 Corinthians 7:1 Paul's love failed to be appreciated by his converts because the channel of receptiveness, that is, of their faith and love, was so...
The injunction, "We intreat also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain," harmonizes in method with many others used by Paul. Let your conduct harmonize with your position in grace. With what po...
(6) O [ye] Corinthians, our mouth is (g) open unto you, our heart is enlarged. (6) Going about to rebuke them he says first that he deals with them sincerely and with an open and plain heart, and in...
Our mouth is open to speak with freedom and confidence. --- Our heart is enlarged, dilated, as it were, with the warmth of love and charity. --- But you are straitened in our own bowels; you have not...
(11) O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged. (12) Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels. (13) Now for a recompense in the same, I (speak as...
11_Our mouth is opened. _As the _opening of the mouth _is a sign of boldness, (602) if you are inclined to connect this with what goes before, the meaning will be this, — “I have ample ground of glory...
Paul had said that God exhorted by his means. In Chapter 6 the affection of the apostle carries on by the Spirit this divine work, beseeching the Corinthians that it might not be in vain in their case...
O YE CORINTHIANS,.... The apostle having exhorted the ministers of the church at Corinth to take care of their ministry, that they fulfil it, and that it might appear that the Gospel, and gifts fittin...
O _ye_ Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged. Ver. 11. _Our mouth is open unto you_] We speak thus freely unto you, out of our deep affection towards you; we even carve you a...
From the praise of the Christian ministry, which he began chapter 2 Corinthians 2:14, he now draws his affectionate exhortation. _O ye Corinthians_ He seldom uses this appellation; but it has here a p...
OUR MOUTH IS OPEN; we speak freely from the fulness of our hearts. OUR HEART IS ENLARGED; with love towards you, so that there is room enough in it to take you all in....
ADMONITION TO FLEE THE FELLOWSHIP OF UNBELIEVERS. 2 Corinthians 6:11...
O YE CORINTHIANS, OUR MOUTH IS OPEN UNTO YOU, OUR HEART IS ENLARGED....
The message of reconciliation having been received by the Corinthians, now the Lord's servants, as fellow-workmen in unity, had further entreaty to make of them. Their profession of faith would be tes...
11-18 It is wrong for believers to join with the wicked and profane. The word unbeliever applies to all destitute of true faith. True pastors will caution their beloved children in the gospel, not to...
OUR MOUTH IS OPEN to speak freely to you, and to communicate to you the whole will and counsel of God; OUR HEART IS ENLARGED both by the love that I have towards you, and by the rejoicing that I have...
Our mouth is open unto you, O Corinthians, our heart is enlarged....
2 Corinthians 6:11 Corinthians G2881 openly G2257 G4750 G455 (G5754) to G4314 you G5209 our G2257 heart...
HAVING CONFIRMED HIS OWN CREDENTIALS AND HIS OWN WAY OF LIVING HE PLEADS FOR A THEM TO TURN FROM ALL THAT MIGHT HINDER THEM AND FOR THEIR EQUAL FULL AND EXCLUSIVE RESPONSE TO GOD AND TO CHRIST (2 CORI...
‘Our mouth is open to you, O Corinthians, our heart is enlarged.' He begins his plea by stressing his total honesty and strong affection for them. Naming them by name, always a sign of his strong feel...
2 Corinthians 6:11-12. OUR MONTH IS OPEN UNTO YOU, O CORINTHIANS, OUR HEART IS ENLARGED. YE ARE NOT STRAITENED IN US, BUT YE ARE STRAITENED IN YOUR OWN AFFECTIONS ‘If there is any want of openness bet...
OUR MOUTH IS OPEN UNTO YOU (το στομα ημων ανεωιγεν προς υμας). Second perfect active indicative of ανοιγω and intransitive, stand open. He has kept back nothing in his portrayal of the glory of the...
2 Corinthians 6:1. _We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain._ God's servants are called to take many different positions. They are ambassa...
CONTENTS: Paul's ministry to the Corinthians. Appeal to separation and cleansing. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: The ministers of the Gospel should look upon themselves as Go...
2 Corinthians 6:1. _We then as workers together_ with the Lord, who has by himself purged our sins, and reconciled all things to himself on the cross, and has commissioned us to continue the ministry...
_O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged._ A CHRISTIAN MINISTER’S APPEAL I. The appeal of a revived minister, 1. It consists of a full exhibition to you of all the truth...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 6:3 Paul defends his ministry as an apostle by once again calling attention to his faithfulness amid the changing circumstances of his apostolic life. Paul’s minist...
CHAPTER 6 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. He exhorts them not to neglect the proffered grace of reconciliation spoken of at the end of the last chapter. II. He points out (ver. 4) the qualities required...
_0 ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you._ My mouth is open, it longs to say more to you, and to express all my affection for you, and it cannot. No matter what and how much I may say, it is less...
EXPOSITION The methods and conditions of an apostolic ministry (2 Corinthians 6:1). Appeal to the Corinthians to reciprocate his affection and separate themselves from evil (2 Corinthians 6:11)....
We then, as workers together with him (2 Corinthians 6:1), And what a glorious way to view the ministry. I'm working with Jesus, working together with Him. [We] beseech you also that ye receive not t...
1 Samuel 2:1; 2 Corinthians 12:15; 2 Corinthians 2:4; 2 Corinthians 7:3;...
Ye Corinthians. The readers are addressed by name in only two other epistles, Galatians 3:1; Philippians 4:15. Is enlarged [π ε π λ α τ υ ν τ α ι]. Only here, ver. 13, and Matthew 23:5, where it is us...
From the praise of the Christian ministry, which he began 2 Corinthians 2:14, he now draws his affectionate exhortation. O ye Corinthians — He seldom uses this appellation. But it has here a peculiar...
These words are very pathetic and expressive of St. Paul's most affectionate and ardent love towards the Corinthians, whom he had been an happy instrument to convert unto Christianity. He tells them,...