2 Corintios 7:3

3 No digo esto para condenarlos; ya les he dicho que tienen un lugar tan amplio en nuestro corazón que con ustedes viviríamos o moriríamos.

2 Corintios 7:3 Meaning and Commentary

2 Corinthians 7:3

I speak not this to condemn you
Referring either to the exhortations before given, to have no sinful conversation with unbelievers, and to cleanse themselves from all impurity, external and internal; and to go on in a course of holiness, in the fear of God, to the end of life; or to the account just given of himself and fellow ministers; and his sense is this, the exhortations I have given must not be so understood, as though I charged and accused you with keeping company with unbelievers, or as though you were not concerned for purity of life and conversation; or when I remove the above mentioned things from myself and others, I mean not to lay them upon you, as if I thought that you had wronged, corrupted, or defrauded any; when I clear myself and others, I do not design to accuse or condemn you; my view is only to the false apostles, who have done these things, when we have not, and therefore we have the best claim to your affections:

for I have said before, you are in our hearts;
you are inscribed on our hearts, engraven there, "ye are our epistle written in our hearts", ( 2 Corinthians 3:2 ) ye are not straitened in us, ( 2 Corinthians 6:12 ) you have a place and room enough in our affections, which are strong towards you, insomuch that it is our desire and resolution

to die and live with you;
or together: neither death nor life shall separate our love, or destroy our friendship; there is nothing we more desire than to live with you; and should there be any occasion for it, could freely die with you, and for you.

2 Corintios 7:3 In-Context

1 Como tenemos estas promesas, queridos hermanos, purifiquémonos de todo lo que contamina el cuerpo y el espíritu, para completar en el temor de Dios la obra de nuestra santificación.

2 Hagan lugar para nosotros en su corazón. A nadie hemos agraviado, a nadie hemos corrompido, a nadie hemos explotado.

3 No digo esto para condenarlos; ya les he dicho que tienen un lugar tan amplio en nuestro corazón que con ustedes viviríamos o moriríamos.

4 Les tengo mucha confianza y me siento muy orgulloso de ustedes. Estoy muy animado; en medio de todas nuestras aflicciones se desborda mi alegría.

5 Cuando llegamos a Macedonia, nuestro cuerpo no tuvo ningún descanso, sino que nos vimos acosados por todas partes; conflictos por fuera, temores por dentro.