KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
2 Corinthians 6:11–12
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2 Corinthians 6:11
11O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.
11O yee Corinthians, our mouth is open vnto you, our heart is enlarged.
2 Corinthians 6:12
12Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.
12Yee are not straitened in vs, but yee are straitned in your owne bowels.
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DEFINED WORDS
2 Corinthians 6:11
The opening used for eating and speaking; also an opening, edge, command, or testimony by extension.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Unclosed, uncovered, or manifest; as a verb, to uncover, reveal, or explain.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The bodily organ; more often in Scripture, the inward person—the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character—according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Increased in bulk; extended in dimension; expanded; dilated; augmented; released from confinement or straits.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
2 Corinthians 6:12
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Belonging to oneself; peculiar or proper to the person or thing named.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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From verse 11
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Open the full verse study15And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
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Open the full verse study3I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you.
4Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.
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Open the full verse study32I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.
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Open the full verse study8For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
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Open the full verse study4For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
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Open the full verse study1AND Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the Lord, mine horn is exalted in the Lord: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.
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Open the full verse study1O FOOLISH Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
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Open the full verse study15Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only.
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Open the full verse study12And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
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Open the full verse study8Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.
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Open the full verse study5¶ Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:
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Open the full verse study20I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.
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Open the full verse study2Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth.
3My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.
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Open the full verse study15O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
From verse 12
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Open the full verse study2Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.
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Open the full verse study7¶ O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the Lord straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?
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Open the full verse study8For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
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Open the full verse study17But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
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Open the full verse study16Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.
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Open the full verse study9¶ Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
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Open the full verse study12When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
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