What Does 2 Corinthians 6:11 Mean in the King James?

O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.

2 Corinthians 6:11 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

THE KEY

The mouth opens toward you, but the heart is made spacious enough to hold you.

THE MEANING

Your welcome is more than words reaching you: it is room made within for you. The heart is pictured as widened, so relationship becomes space that can receive another person.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The lie that being heard is the same as being received dissolves: speech can open outward while the heart remains narrow.

THE ROOT

πεπλάτυνται

peplatyntai

GROWS FROM

πλατύνω

platynō

To make broad, widen, or make spacious.

“enlarged” in this verse is peplatyntai. The form ⁨πεπλάτυνται⁩ (peplatyntai, “has been made wide”) keeps a spatial image: the heart has room within it. The same verb can describe making something outwardly broad; here, that breadth belongs to the heart opening toward another person.

ALSO GROWS

platys: Broad, wide.

πλατύς

This adjective carries the spatial sense behind the widening: the heart is broad in capacity, not elevated in status.

plateia: A broad street or open square.

πλατεῖα

This related word names literal public space, showing how the same word family makes “enlarged heart” an image of room.

THE PATTERN

A true opening widens inner capacity for what can be received.

I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.

Psalm 119:32 · KJVThe heart’s widening creates room for movement along the way.

Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,

Luke 24:45 · KJVUnderstanding opens from within so that what is read can be received.

Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.

2 Corinthians 6:13 · KJVThe widening becomes an invitation for the reader’s heart to open in return.

THE THREAD

But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,

Matthew 23:5 · KJV

The same Greek verb behind “enlarged” here appears as “make broad” for phylacteries widened to attract attention. Matthew gives that widening an outward, performative use; here, the breadth is in the heart, opening toward another person.

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