12 Ye are not [a]kept strait in us, but ye are kept strait in your own [b]bowels.

13 Now for the same recompense, I speak as to my children, Be you also enlarged.

14 [c]Be not unequally yoked with the infidels: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 6:12 You are in mine heart, as in an house, and that no narrow or strait house, for I have opened my whole heart to you, but you are inwardly straitlaced to me-ward.
  2. 2 Corinthians 6:12 After the manner of the Hebrews, he calleth those tender affections which rest in the heart, bowels.
  3. 2 Corinthians 6:14 Now he rebuked them boldly, for that they became fellows with infidels in outward idolatry, as though it were a thing indifferent. And this is the fourth part of this Epistle, the conclusion whereof is, that such as the Lord has vouchsafed the name of his children, must keep themselves pure, not only in mind, but also in body, that they may wholly be holy unto the Lord.

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