2nd Corinthians Chapter 6 verse 12 Holy Bible
Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own affections.
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It is not our feelings to you which are narrow, but yours to us.
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Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your affections;
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Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.
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You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.
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ye are not straitened in us, and ye are straitened in your `own' bowels,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 12. - Ye are not straitened in us. Any narrowing of the sympathy or straining of the relations between us does not rise in any way from me. (For the verb, see 2 Corinthians 4:8.) Ye are straitened in your own bowels; rather, in your own hearts. Any tightening or pressure of the feelings which should exist between us rises solely from your own hearts. Enlarge and open them, as I have done, and we shall once more love each other aright. The verb has already occurred in 2 Corinthians 4:8 ("distressed"). Your own bowels. It is to be regretted that the Authorized Version adopted the meaningless and often rather incongruous word "bowels" for the Greek word σπλάγχνα used in its Hebraic sense of "feelings," "affections" (Song of Solomon 5:4; Isaiah 16:11). This literalism is always out of place, and especially in Philemon 1:7, 12, 20.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(12) Ye are not straitened in us.--The word presents a natural contrast to the expansion, the dilatation, of heart of the previous verse. There was no narrowness in him. In that large heart of his there was room for them and for a thousand others. It had, as it were, an infinite elasticity in its sympathies. The narrowness was found in their own "bowels"--i.e., in their own affections. They would not make room for him in those hearts that were so straitened by passions, and prejudices, and antipathies.
