Catholic Public Domain Version
"But since we have the same recompense, (I am speaking as if to my own sons), you, too, should be enlarged. "
— 2 Corinthians 6:13, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.”
“Now for a recompense in like kind (I speak as unto my children), be ye also enlarged. ”
“Now in return, I speak as to my children, you also be open wide.”
“Now as a fair exchange– I speak as to my children– open wide your hearts to us also.”
“But having the same recompense (I speak as to my children): be you also enlarged.”
“Now to give me back payment of the same sort (I am talking as to my children), let your hearts be wide open to me.”
“Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.”
as if sorrowful and yet always rejoicing; as if needy and yet enriching many; as if having nothing and possessing everything.
Our mouth is open to you, O Corinthians; our heart is enlarged.
You are not narrowed by us, but it is by your own inner selves that you are narrowed.
But since we have the same recompense, (I am speaking as if to my own sons), you, too, should be enlarged.
Do not choose to bear the yoke with unbelievers. For how can justice be a participant with iniquity? Or how can the fellowship of light be a participant with darkness?
And how can Christ join together with Belial? Or what part do the faithful have with the unfaithful?
And what consensus does the temple of God have with idols? For you are the temple of the living God, just as God says: “I will dwell with them, and I will walk among them. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.