Now for a recompense in the same, (I speak as to my children,) be you also enlarged. Treasury of Scripture I speak. 1 Corinthians 4:14,15 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you... Galatians 4:19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you, 1 Thessalonians 2:11 As you know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father does his children, Hebrews 12:5,6 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to children, My son, despise not you the chastening of the Lord... 1 John 2:1,12-14 My little children, these things write I to you, that you sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father... 1 John 3:7,18 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous... 3 John 1:4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth. be. 2 Kings 13:14-19 Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over his face... Psalm 81:10 I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt: open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. Matthew 9:28,29 And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus said to them, Believe you that I am able to do this... Matthew 17:19-21 Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out... Mark 6:4-6 But Jesus, said to them, A prophet is not without honor, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house... Mark 11:24 Therefore I say to you, What things soever you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them. James 1:6,7 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed... 1 John 5:14,15 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he hears us...
Context Paul's Hardships and God's Grace
1We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that you receive not the grace of God in vain. 2(For he said, I have heard you in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succored you: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) 3Giving no offense in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed: 4But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, 5In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings; 6By pureness, by knowledge, by long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, 7By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, 8By honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true; 9As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; 10As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. 11O you Corinthians, our mouth is open to you, our heart is enlarged. 12You are not straitened in us, but you are straitened in your own bowels. 13Now for a recompense in the same, (I speak as to my children,) be you also enlarged. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
Now for a recompense in like kind (I speak as unto my children), be ye also enlarged.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But having the same recompense, (I speak as to my children,) be you also enlarged.
Darby Bible Translation
but for an answering recompense, (I speak as to children,) let your heart also expand itself.
King James Bible
Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.
Young's Literal Translation
and as a recompense of the same kind, (as to children I say it,) be ye enlarged -- also ye!
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