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2 Corinthians 6:13
2 Corinthians 6:13 is verse 13 of 2 Corinthians chapter 6, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
As a fair exchange, I ask you as my children: Open wide your hearts also.
King James Version
Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.
World English Bible
Now in return—I speak as to my children—you also open your hearts.
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2 Corinthians 6:11–15 · Berean Standard Bible
11 We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians. Our hearts are open wide.
12 It is not our affection, but yours, that is restrained.
13 As a fair exchange, I ask you as my children: Open wide your hearts also.
14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
15 What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?
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Cross-references
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1 Corinthians 4:14I am not writing this to shame you, but to warn you as my beloved children.
1 Corinthians 4:15Even if you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.
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.
Hebrews 12:6For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.”
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 2:13I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I have written to you, children, because you know the Father.
1 John 2:14I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
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.
3 John 1:4I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
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!”
2 Kings 13:15Elisha told him, “Take a bow and some arrows.” So Jehoash took a bow and some arrows.
2 Kings 13:16Then Elisha said to the king of Israel, “Put your hand on the bow.” So the king put his hand on the bow, and Elisha put his hands on the king’s hands.
2 Kings 13:17“Open the east window,” said Elisha. So he opened it and Elisha said, “Shoot!” So he shot. And Elisha declared: “This is the LORD’s arrow of victory, the arrow of victory over Aram, for you shall strike the Arameans in Aphek until you have put an end to them.”
2 Kings 13:18Then Elisha said, “Take the arrows!” So he took them, and Elisha said to the king of Israel, “Strike the ground!” So he struck the ground three times and stopped.
2 Kings 13:19But the man of God was angry with him and said, “You should have struck the ground five or six times. Then you would have struck down Aram until you had put an end to it. But now you will strike down Aram only three times.”
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 9:29Then He touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith will it be done to you.”
Matthew 17:19Afterward the disciples came to Jesus privately and asked, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?”
Matthew 17:20“Because you have so little faith,” He answered. “For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”
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 6:5So He could not perform any miracles there, except to lay His hands on a few of the sick and heal them.
Mark 6:6And He was amazed at their unbelief. And He went around from village to village, teaching the people.
Mark 11:24Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
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.
James 1:7That man should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.
1 John 5:14And this is the confidence that we have before Him: If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.
1 John 5:15And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we already possess what we have asked of Him.