2 Corinthians 6:13
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“As a fair exchange, I ask you as my children: Open wide your hearts also.”
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“As a fair exchange, I ask you as my children: Open wide your hearts also.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Now for a recompense in like kind (I speak as unto my children), be ye also enlarged.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and <FI>as<Fi> a recompense of the same kind, (as to children I say <FI>it<Fi> ,) be ye enlarged--also ye!”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 2 Corinthians 6:13 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Kings 13:14When Elisha had fallen sick with the illness from which he would die, Jehoash king of Israel came down to him and wept over him, saying, “My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel!”
- Psalms 81:10I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth, and I will fill it.
- Matthew 9:28After Jesus had entered the house, the blind men came to Him. “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” He asked. “Yes, Lord,” they answered.
- Matthew 17:19Afterward the disciples came to Jesus privately and asked, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?”
- Mark 6:4Then Jesus said to them, “Only in his hometown, among his relatives, and in his own household is a prophet without honor.”
- Mark 11:24Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
- 1 Corinthians 4:14I am not writing this to shame you, but to warn you as my beloved children.
- Galatians 4:12I beg you, brothers, become like me, for I became like you. You have done me no wrong.
- Galatians 4:19My children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,
- 1 Thessalonians 2:11For you know that we treated each of you as a father treats his own children—
- Hebrews 12:5And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.
- James 1:6But he must ask in faith, without doubting, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.
- 1 John 2:1My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.
- 1 John 2:12I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven through His name.
- 1 John 3:7Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Christ is righteous.
- 1 John 3:18Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.
- 1 John 5:14And this is the confidence that we have before Him: If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.
- 3 John 1:4I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
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