2 Corinthians 6:13

13 I speak to you as if you were my children. Do to us as we have done -- open your hearts to us.

2 Corinthians 6:13 Meaning and Commentary

2 Corinthians 6:13

Now for a recompence in the same
That your love to me may answer mine to you; that as you have my heart, I may have yours, and the same room in your heart, as you have in mine. The Vulgate Latin version reads, "having the same recompence"; and the Arabic version renders it, "grant to me the same recompence"; and the Syriac version, "recompense to me my usuries that are with you"; that is, repay me with affection, let love be returned for love.

I speak as unto my children;
which relation subsisting between us requires mutual affection; for as a father should love his children, so children should love their father:

be ye also enlarged;
in your love to me, as I am to you; and then, as if he should say, you will bear with, and take in good part the following exhortation and advice.

2 Corinthians 6:13 In-Context

11 We have spoken freely to you in Corinth and have opened our hearts to you.

12 Our feelings of love for you have not stopped, but you have stopped your feelings of love for us.

13 I speak to you as if you were my children. Do to us as we have done -- open your hearts to us.

14 You are not the same as those who do not believe. So do not join yourselves to them. Good and bad do not belong together. Light and darkness cannot share together.

15 How can Christ and Belial, the devil, have any agreement? What can a believer have together with a nonbeliever?