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2 Corinthians 6

2 Cor. 6:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Ye are
stenochoreo (Greek #4729)
to hem in closely, i.e. (figuratively) cramp
KJV usage: distress, straiten.
Pronounce: sten-okh-o-reh'-o
Origin: from the same as 4730
not
ou (Greek #3756)
the absolute negative (compare 3361) adverb; no or not
KJV usage: + long, nay, neither, never, no (X man), none, (can-)not, + nothing, + special, un(-worthy), when, + without, + yet but. See also 3364, 3372.
Pronounce: oo
Origin: οὐκ (ook), and (before an aspirate) οὐχ (ookh) a primary word
straitened
stenochoreo (Greek #4729)
to hem in closely, i.e. (figuratively) cramp
KJV usage: distress, straiten.
Pronounce: sten-okh-o-reh'-o
Origin: from the same as 4730
in
en (Greek #1722)
"in," at, (up-)on, by, etc.
KJV usage: about, after, against, + almost, X altogether, among, X as, at, before, between, (here-)by (+ all means), for (... sake of), + give self wholly to, (here-)in(-to, -wardly), X mightily, (because) of, (up-)on, (open-)ly, X outwardly, one, X quickly, X shortly, (speedi-)ly, X that, X there(-in, -on), through(-out), (un-)to(-ward), under, when, where(-with), while, with(-in). Often used in compounds, with substantially the same import; rarely with verbs of motion, and then not to indicate direction, except (elliptically) by a separate (and different) preposition.
Pronounce: en
Origin: a primary preposition denoting (fixed) position (in place, time or state), and (by implication) instrumentality (medially or constructively), i.e. a relation of rest (intermediate between 1519 and 1537)
us
hemin (Greek #2254)
to (or for, with, by) us
KJV usage: our, (for) us, we.
Pronounce: hay-meen'
Origin: dative case plural of 1473
, but
de (Greek #1161)
but, and, etc.
KJV usage: also, and, but, moreover, now (often unexpressed in English).
Pronounce: deh
Origin: a primary particle (adversative or continuative)
ye are straitened
stenochoreo (Greek #4729)
to hem in closely, i.e. (figuratively) cramp
KJV usage: distress, straiten.
Pronounce: sten-okh-o-reh'-o
Origin: from the same as 4730
in
en (Greek #1722)
"in," at, (up-)on, by, etc.
KJV usage: about, after, against, + almost, X altogether, among, X as, at, before, between, (here-)by (+ all means), for (... sake of), + give self wholly to, (here-)in(-to, -wardly), X mightily, (because) of, (up-)on, (open-)ly, X outwardly, one, X quickly, X shortly, (speedi-)ly, X that, X there(-in, -on), through(-out), (un-)to(-ward), under, when, where(-with), while, with(-in). Often used in compounds, with substantially the same import; rarely with verbs of motion, and then not to indicate direction, except (elliptically) by a separate (and different) preposition.
Pronounce: en
Origin: a primary preposition denoting (fixed) position (in place, time or state), and (by implication) instrumentality (medially or constructively), i.e. a relation of rest (intermediate between 1519 and 1537)
your own
humon (Greek #5216)
of (from or concerning) you
KJV usage: ye, you, your (own, -selves).
Pronounce: hoo-mone'
Origin: genitive case of 5210
bowels
ho (Greek #3588)
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
KJV usage: the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Pronounce: ho
Origin: ἡ (hay), and the neuter τό (to) in all their inflections
splagchnon (Greek #4698)
an intestine (plural); figuratively, pity or sympathy
KJV usage: bowels, inward affection, + tender mercy.
Pronounce: splangkh'-non
Origin: probably strengthened from σπλήν (the "spleen")
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Ministry on This Verse

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are not.
Eccl. 6:9• 9Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit. (Eccl. 6:9)
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Eccl. 6•  (Eccl. 6)
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Job 36:16• 16Even 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. (Job 36:16)
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Prov. 4:12• 12When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble. (Prov. 4:12)
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Mic. 2:7• 7O 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? (Mic. 2:7)
in your.
Phil. 1:8• 8For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ. (Phil. 1:8)
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1 John 3:17• 17But 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? (1 John 3:17)
• There was free and full room in his heart for them, but not in theirs for him. They had been lax, and he is about to warn them solemnly on this head; they were still narrow. How great an error to count narrowness fidelity, whereas it may well go as here with laxity! (“Notes on 2 Corinthians 6:11-13” by W. Kelly)
• As a recompense for the affections that over-flowed from his heart towards them, he only asks for the enlargement of their own hearts. (“2 Corinthians 6” by J.N. Darby)
• It was in their own affections the Corinthians were contracted. (Ver. 12.) There was free and full room in his heart for them, but not in theirs for him. (“Notes on 2 Corinthians 6:11-13” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your affectionsb;

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "bowels."

W. Kelly Translation

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ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels;