2
Corinthians 6:12 KJV
Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own
bowels.
The Apostle spoke boldly to this church but assured them
that it was out of pure love for them. Though, even in this second epistle, he
corrects them as bluntly as he does at the end of this chapter, he reminds them
in this verse that it was not he that had straitened them but they had
straitened themselves through their
- Choices
- Decisions
and
- Relationships
with unbelievers
This is a bold and confident thing for him to say.
- If they
felt badly after reading his letter
- If they
were under conviction
- If the
relationship they had with Paul was strained
it was not because Paul had been too honest in speaking to
them but because they had associated themselves with ungodly or worldly
connections. He had not "straitened[1]"
them with the truth; they had strained their love for Paul with worldliness.
[1] This
word does not mean "to correct" as in straighten but "to make
difficult, narrow or restricted."
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