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2 Corinthians 6 Bible study: Our heart is enlarged

"Our heart is enlarged" (6:11) and "you also open your hearts" (6:13) have one Greek verb behind enlarged and open. And 6:11 is the only verse where the letter calls its readers Corinthians.

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“as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things.”
2 Corinthians 6:10 · World English Bible

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“2 Corinthians 6:11 says, "Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians."”

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What's really going on

Now is the day of salvation

In the text

The chapter opens, "Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain." (6:1). Working together doesn't say with whom, and these notes don't either. Behind entreat is the verb Favor's 2 Corinthians 1, 2 and 5 study as parakaleo. Then: "For he says, “At an acceptable time I listened to you. In a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation." (6:2). The WEB prints the words after "For he says" in quotation marks. The letter doesn't name a passage for them, doesn't say who he is, and doesn't say who you is in them. What it says to its readers is now, twice.

Where the Old Testament leads here

I will dwell in them and walk in them

In the text

Leviticus 26:12leads to2 Corinthians 6:16

The LORD promises, "I will set my tent among you" (26:11), "I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people" (26:12). Paul writes to the church at Corinth about those who are "in Christ" (2 Corinthians 5:17), reconciled to God "through Jesus Christ" (2 Corinthians 5:18): "For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, ‘I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people’" (2 Corinthians 6:16). Paul doesn't name the book. Ezekiel has "My tent also will be with them. I will be their God, and they will be my people" (Ezekiel 37:27), but the walking is in Leviticus 26:12.

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The Greek word behind it

πλατύνωplatynosay plat-OO-no

Strong's: "to widen (literally or figuratively)". "Our heart is enlarged." (6:11): behind enlarged is this verb. Two verses later it comes again, where the WEB gives it as open: "you also open your hearts" (6:13). The New Testament has it three times (counted in RP2018); the other is "enlarge the fringes of their garments" (Matthew 23:5).

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2 Corinthians 6 Bible study questions

  1. 1"in the word of truth, in the power of God" (6:7). Where have you seen the power of God at work this week?
  2. 2"as sorrowful yet always rejoicing" (6:10). What helps you rejoice in an ordinary week?
  3. 3"Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged." (6:11). What helps a group like this one speak openly with each other?

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Last reviewed October 8, 2026. Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain. Hebrew and Greek words are checked against the original-language texts and public-domain lexicons. What we believe · Favor home