11 Our mouth is open unto you, O Corinthians, our heart is enlarged.
I will run the way of thy commandments, When thou shalt enlarge my heart.
And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?
I will speak, that I may be refreshed; I will open my lips and answer.
Behold now, I have opened my mouth; My tongue hath spoken in my mouth. My words `shall utter' the uprightness of my heart; And that which my lips know they shall speak sincerely.
Yea, moreover, wine is treacherous, a haughty man, that keepeth not at home; who enlargeth his desire as Sheol, and he is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all peoples.
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly unto you.
I say it not to condemn `you': for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die together and live together. Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying on your behalf: I am filled with comfort, I overflow with joy in all our affliction.
O foolish Galatians, who did bewitch you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth crucified?
knowing that whatsoever good thing each one doeth, the same shall he receive again from the Lord, whether `he be' bond or free.
And ye yourselves also know, ye Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church had fellowship with me in the matter of giving and receiving but ye only;
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Commentary on 2 Corinthians 6 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 6
In this chapter the apostle gives an account of his general errand to all to whom he preached; with the several arguments and methods he used (v. 1-10). Then he addresses himself particularly to the Corinthians, giving them good cautions with great affection and strong arguments (v. 11-18).
2Cr 6:1-10
In these verses we have an account of the apostle's general errand and exhortation to all to whom he preached in every place where he came, with the several arguments and methods he used. Observe,
2Cr 6:11-18
The apostle proceeds to address himself more particularly to the Corinthians, and cautions them against mingling with unbelievers. Here observe,