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2 Corinthians 6:11

O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.

KJV

Τὸ στόμα ἡμῶν ἀνέῳγεν πρὸς ὑμᾶς, Κορίνθιοι, ἡ καρδία ἡμῶν πεπλάτυνται·

Greek NT

Os nostrum patet ad vos, o Corinthii ; cor nostrum dilatatum est.

Vulgate

Our mouth is open unto you, O Corinthians, our heart is enlarged.

ASV

Our mouth is open to you, O ye Corinthians: our heart is enlarged.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

9 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Κορίνθιος
korinthios
adjective · 2×
καρδία
kardia
noun · 156×
πλατύνω
platuno
verb · 3×
πρός
pros
preposition · 697×
στόμα
stoma
noun · 78×
ἀνοίγω
anoigo
verb · 76×
ἡμεῖς
emeis
pronoun · 862×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×

Historic Christian voices

8 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§1695"Justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God,"13 "sanctified . . . (and) called to be saints,"14 Christians have become the temple of the Holy Spirit.15 This "Spirit of the Son" teaches them to pray to the Father16 and, having become their life, prompts them to act so as to bear "the fruit of the Spirit"17 by charity in action. Healing the wounds…
§2813In the waters of Baptism, we have been "washed . . . sanctified . . . justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God."79 Our Father calls us to holiness in the whole of our life, and since "he is the source of (our) life in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and . . .sanctification,"80 both his glory and our life depend on the hallowin…
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210232.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
Is charity in the will as its subject? Is charity caused in man by preceding acts or by a Divine infusion? Is it infused according to the capacity of our natural gifts? Does it increase in the person who has it? Does it increase by addition? Does it increase by every act? Does it increase indefinitely? Can the charity of a wayfarer be perfect? The various degrees of charity Can…

Cross-references

  • 1Sam 2:1 — And 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.
  • 2Cor 2:4 — For 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.
  • 2Cor 7:3 — I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you.
  • 2Cor 7:3 — I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you.
  • 2Cor 11:11 — Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
  • 2Cor 12:15 — And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
  • Exod 28:30 — And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron’s heart, when he goeth in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of
  • Gal 3:1 — O 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?
  • Phil 1:8 — For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
  • Phil 4:15 — Now 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.
  • Ps 119:32 — I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.
  • Ps 119:32 — I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.
  • Rev 22:12 — And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.