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We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have exploited no one.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/2_corinthians/7.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />Please open your hearts to us. We have not done wrong to anyone, nor led anyone astray, nor taken advantage of anyone.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/2_corinthians/7.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Make room in your hearts for us. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have taken advantage of no one.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/2_corinthians/7.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Make room for us in your hearts. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have exploited no one.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/blb/2_corinthians/7.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a></span><br />Make room for us. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have exploited no one.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/2_corinthians/7.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/2_corinthians/7.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />Open <i>your hearts</i> to us. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have cheated no one.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/2_corinthians/7.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Make room for us <i>in your hearts;</i> we have wronged no one, we corrupted no one, we have taken advantage of no one.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/2_corinthians/7.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Make room for us in your hearts; we wronged no one, we corrupted no one, we took advantage of no one.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/2_corinthians/7.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />Make room for us <i>in your hearts;</i> we wronged no one, we corrupted no one, we took advantage of no one.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/2_corinthians/7.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Make room for us <i>in your hearts</i>. We wronged no one, we corrupted no one, we took advantage of no one.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/2_corinthians/7.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />Make room for us <i>in your hearts;</i> we have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have cheated no one.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/2_corinthians/7.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Make room for us in your hearts. We have wronged no one, corrupted no one, taken advantage of no one.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/2_corinthians/7.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Accept us. We have wronged no one, corrupted no one, defrauded no one. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/2_corinthians/7.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Open your hearts to us: we wronged no man, we corrupted no man, we took advantage of no man.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/2_corinthians/7.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Make a place for us in your hearts! We haven't mistreated or hurt anyone. We haven't cheated anyone. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/2_corinthians/7.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Open your hearts to us: we wronged no man, we corrupted no man, we took advantage of no man.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/2_corinthians/7.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Open your hearts to us. We haven't treated anyone unjustly, ruined anyone, or cheated anyone.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/2_corinthians/7.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Make room for us in your hearts. We have wronged no one; we have ruined no one, nor tried to take advantage of anyone. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/2_corinthians/7.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Make room for us in your hearts! We have not treated anyone unjustly, harmed anyone, or cheated anyone. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/2_corinthians/7.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Make room for us in your hearts. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have exploited no one.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/2_corinthians/7.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Make room for us in your hearts; we have wronged no one, we have ruined no one, we have exploited no one.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/2_corinthians/7.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Open your hearts to us. We wronged no one. We corrupted no one. We took advantage of no one.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/2_corinthians/7.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/2_corinthians/7.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />Make room for us in your hearts. There is not one of you whom we have wronged, not one to whom we have done harm, not one over whom we have gained any selfish advantage.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/2_corinthians/7.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Open your hearts to us. We wronged no one. We corrupted no one. We took advantage of no one. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/2_corinthians/7.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />receive us; no one did we wrong; no one did we ruin; no one did we defraud;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/blb/2_corinthians/7.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a></span><br />Make room for us. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have exploited no one.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/2_corinthians/7.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> receive us; no one did we wrong; no one did we waste; no one did we defraud;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/2_corinthians/7.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Receive us; we injured none, we corrupted none, we took advantage of none.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/2_corinthians/7.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Receive us. We have injured no man, we have corrupted no man, we have overreached no man. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/2_corinthians/7.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />Consider us. We have injured no one; we have corrupted no one; we have defrauded no one.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/2_corinthians/7.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Make room for us; we have not wronged anyone, or ruined anyone, or taken advantage of anyone.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/2_corinthians/7.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Make room in your hearts for us; we have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have taken advantage of no one.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/2_corinthians/7.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Be patient; my brethren, we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/aramaic-plain-english/2_corinthians/7.htm">Aramaic Bible in Plain English</a></span><br />Bear with us brethren. We have not done evil to anyone; we have not corrupted anyone; we have not cheated anyone.<div class="vheading2"><b>NT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/anderson/2_corinthians/7.htm">Anderson New Testament</a></span><br />Regard us cordially; we have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have made gain by no one.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/godbey/2_corinthians/7.htm">Godbey New Testament</a></span><br />Receive us: we have injured no one, we have corrupted no one, we have defrauded no one.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/haweis/2_corinthians/7.htm">Haweis New Testament</a></span><br />Give us a favourable reception: we have injured no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/mace/2_corinthians/7.htm">Mace New Testament</a></span><br />Receive me as one who has wronged no man, who has corrupted no man, who has defrauded no man.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/2_corinthians/7.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />Make room for us in your hearts. There is not one of you whom we have wronged, not one to whom we have done harm, not one over whom we have gained any selfish advantage.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/worrell/2_corinthians/7.htm">Worrell New Testament</a></span><br />Make room for us; we wronged no one, we corrupted no one, we defrauded no one.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/worsley/2_corinthians/7.htm">Worsley New Testament</a></span><br />Receive us---we have injured no man, we have corrupted no one, we have over-reached no one.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/2_corinthians/7-2.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ddheG4hMg28?start=1130" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/2_corinthians/7.htm">Paul's Joy in the Corinthians</a></span><br><span class="reftext">1</span>Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. <span class="reftext">2</span><span class="highl"><a href="/greek/5562.htm" title="5562: Chōrēsate (V-AMA-2P) -- From chora; to be in space, i.e. to pass, enter, or to hold, admit.">Make room for us in your hearts.</a> <a href="/greek/1473.htm" title="1473: hēmas (PPro-A1P) -- I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I."></a> <a href="/greek/91.htm" title="91: ēdikēsamen (V-AIA-1P) -- To act unjustly towards, injure, harm. From adikos; to be unjust, i.e. do wrong.">We have wronged</a> <a href="/greek/3762.htm" title="3762: oudena (Adj-AMS) -- No one, none, nothing. ">no one,</a> <a href="/greek/5351.htm" title="5351: ephtheiramen (V-AIA-1P) -- To corrupt, spoil, destroy, ruin. Probably strengthened from phthio; properly, to shrivel or wither, i.e. To spoil or to ruin.">we have corrupted</a> <a href="/greek/3762.htm" title="3762: oudena (Adj-AMS) -- No one, none, nothing. ">no one,</a> <a href="/greek/4122.htm" title="4122: epleonektēsamen (V-AIA-1P) -- To take advantage of, overreach, defraud. From pleonektes; to be covetous, i.e. to over-reach.">we have exploited</a> <a href="/greek/3762.htm" title="3762: oudena (Adj-AMS) -- No one, none, nothing. ">no one.</a> </span> <span class="reftext">3</span>I do not say this to condemn you. I have said before that you so occupy our hearts that we live and die together with you.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_corinthians/6-11.htm">2 Corinthians 6:11-13</a></span><br />We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians. Our hearts are open wide. / It is not our affection, but yours, that is restrained. / As a fair exchange—I speak as to my children—open wide your hearts also.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_thessalonians/2-5.htm">1 Thessalonians 2:5-12</a></span><br />As you know, we never used words of flattery or any pretext for greed. God is our witness! / Nor did we seek praise from you or from anyone else, although as apostles of Christ we had authority to demand it. / On the contrary, we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother caring for her children. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-14.htm">1 Corinthians 4:14-16</a></span><br />I am not writing this to shame you, but to warn you as my beloved children. / Even if you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. / Therefore I urge you to imitate me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_corinthians/12-14.htm">2 Corinthians 12:14-18</a></span><br />See, I am ready to come to you a third time, and I will not be a burden, because I am not seeking your possessions, but you. For children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children. / And for the sake of your souls, I will most gladly spend my money and myself. If I love you more, will you love me less? / Be that as it may, I was not a burden to you; but crafty as I am, I caught you by trickery. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/acts/20-33.htm">Acts 20:33-35</a></span><br />I have not coveted anyone’s silver or gold or clothing. / You yourselves know that these hands of mine have ministered to my own needs and those of my companions. / In everything, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus Himself: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/9-11.htm">1 Corinthians 9:11-15</a></span><br />If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much for us to reap a material harvest from you? / If others have this right to your support, shouldn’t we have it all the more? But we did not exercise this right. Instead, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ. / Do you not know that those who work in the temple eat of its food, and those who serve at the altar partake of its offerings? ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/philippians/1-7.htm">Philippians 1:7-8</a></span><br />It is right for me to feel this way about all of you, since I have you in my heart. For in my chains and in my defense and confirmation of the gospel, you are all partners in grace with me. / God is my witness how I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/galatians/4-12.htm">Galatians 4:12-20</a></span><br />I beg you, brothers, become like me, for I became like you. You have done me no wrong. / You know that it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you. / And although my illness was a trial to you, you did not despise or reject me. Instead, you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, as if I were Christ Jesus Himself. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/12-17.htm">Romans 12:17-18</a></span><br />Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Carefully consider what is right in the eyes of everybody. / If it is possible on your part, live at peace with everyone.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_peter/3-16.htm">1 Peter 3:16</a></span><br />keeping a clear conscience, so that those who slander you may be put to shame by your good behavior in Christ.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_samuel/12-3.htm">1 Samuel 12:3-5</a></span><br />Here I am. Bear witness against me before the LORD and before His anointed: Whose ox or donkey have I taken? Whom have I cheated or oppressed? From whose hand have I accepted a bribe and closed my eyes? Tell me, and I will restore it to you.” / “You have not cheated us or oppressed us,” they replied, “nor have you taken anything from the hand of man.” / Samuel said to them, “The LORD is a witness against you, and His anointed is a witness today, that you have not found anything in my hand.” “He is a witness,” they replied.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/acts/24-16.htm">Acts 24:16</a></span><br />In this hope, I strive always to maintain a clear conscience before God and man.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-6.htm">1 Thessalonians 4:6</a></span><br />and no one should ever violate or exploit his brother in this regard, because the Lord will avenge all such acts, as we have already told you and solemnly warned you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_timothy/3-7.htm">1 Timothy 3:7</a></span><br />Furthermore, he must have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the snare of the devil.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/22-1.htm">Proverbs 22:1</a></span><br />A good name is more desirable than great riches; favor is better than silver and gold.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.</p><p class="hdg">Receive.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_corinthians/11-16.htm">2 Corinthians 11:16</a></b></br> I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/matthew/10-14.htm">Matthew 10:14,40</a></b></br> And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/luke/10-8.htm">Luke 10:8</a></b></br> And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you:</p><p class="hdg">we have wronged.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_corinthians/1-12.htm">2 Corinthians 1:12</a></b></br> For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_corinthians/4-2.htm">2 Corinthians 4:2</a></b></br> But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_corinthians/6-3.htm">2 Corinthians 6:3-7</a></b></br> Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed: … </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/2_corinthians/2-11.htm">Advantage</a> <a href="/malachi/2-8.htm">Corrupted</a> <a href="/luke/5-36.htm">Damaged</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/7-5.htm">Defraud</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/6-7.htm">Defrauded</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/2-11.htm">Gain</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/2-11.htm">Gained</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/11-17.htm">Harm</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/6-13.htm">Hearts</a> <a href="/romans/14-15.htm">Injured</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/6-13.htm">Open</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/2-17.htm">Profit</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/6-17.htm">Receive</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/14-16.htm">Room</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/8-11.htm">Ruined</a> <a href="/luke/6-35.htm">Selfish</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/10-5.htm">Waste</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/15-8.htm">Wrong</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/6-7.htm">Wronged</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/2_corinthians/8-10.htm">Advantage</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/11-3.htm">Corrupted</a> <a href="/genesis/32-25.htm">Damaged</a> <a href="/colossians/2-18.htm">Defraud</a> <a href="/leviticus/6-4.htm">Defrauded</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/10-15.htm">Gain</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/12-1.htm">Gained</a> <a href="/2_timothy/4-14.htm">Harm</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/7-3.htm">Hearts</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/7-9.htm">Injured</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/11-25.htm">Open</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/8-10.htm">Profit</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/7-9.htm">Receive</a> <a href="/ephesians/4-27.htm">Room</a> <a href="/genesis/41-36.htm">Ruined</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/12-17.htm">Selfish</a> <a href="/2_timothy/2-14.htm">Waste</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/7-12.htm">Wrong</a> <a href="/galatians/4-12.htm">Wronged</a><div class="vheading2">2 Corinthians 7</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-1.htm">He proceeds in exhorting them to purity of life;</a></span><br><span class="reftext">2. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-2.htm">and to bear him like affection as he does to them.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">3. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-3.htm">Whereof lest he might seem to doubt, he declares what comfort he took in his afflictions </a></span><br><span class="reftext">6. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-6.htm">by the report which Titus gave of their godly sorrow, </a></span><br><span class="reftext">8. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-8.htm">which his former epistle had wrought in them;</a></span><br><span class="reftext">13. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-13.htm">and of their loving-kindness and obedience toward Titus, answerable to his former boastings of them.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The Greek word for "make room" is "χωρέω" (chōreō), which implies creating space or accommodating. Paul is urging the Corinthians to open their hearts to him and his companions, suggesting a deep, personal relationship. Historically, Paul had faced opposition and misunderstanding in Corinth, and this plea reflects his desire for reconciliation and mutual love. In a broader scriptural context, this call to open one's heart is reminiscent of the Christian call to love and accept one another as members of the body of Christ.<p><b>We have wronged no one</b><br />The Greek word for "wronged" is "ἀδικέω" (adikeō), meaning to act unjustly or injure. Paul is defending his ministry and conduct, asserting that he and his companions have not acted unjustly towards anyone. This statement is significant in light of accusations and criticisms Paul faced from some in Corinth. It underscores the integrity and righteousness expected of Christian leaders and serves as a model for believers to live blamelessly.<p><b>we have corrupted no one</b><br />The term "corrupted" comes from the Greek "φθείρω" (phtheirō), which means to destroy or ruin, often in a moral or spiritual sense. Paul is emphasizing that his ministry did not lead anyone astray or cause spiritual harm. This assurance is crucial, as false teachers often accused Paul of misleading the church. Historically, the early church faced many challenges from false teachings, and Paul's defense highlights the importance of sound doctrine and moral integrity.<p><b>we have exploited no one</b><br />The Greek word "πλεονεκτέω" (pleonekteō) means to take advantage of or defraud. Paul is affirming that he did not use his position for personal gain. This is a powerful statement against the backdrop of a culture where leaders often exploited their followers. In the scriptural context, it reflects the Christian ethic of selflessness and service, as modeled by Christ Himself. Paul’s declaration serves as a reminder of the call to serve others with pure motives and integrity.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/2_corinthians/7.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(2) <span class= "bld">Receive us; we have wronged no man.</span>--Better, <span class= "ital">Make room for us</span>; <span class= "ital">we wronged no man:</span> with the same change of tense in the verbs that follow. There is an almost infinite pathos in that entreaty, uttered, we may well believe, as from the very depths of the soul--"Make room for us." The under-current of thought flows on. He had complained of their being straitened in their affections, had entreated that they would enlarge their hearts towards him, as his heart was enlarged towards them. He has travelled on--his thoughts turning now to the party of license, with whom he had pleaded so earnestly in 1 Corinthians 8-10--to the terribly unutterable contaminations to which they were exposing themselves by their companionship with idolaters. He now, almost, as it were, with sobs, entreats once more: "You can find a place for such as these in your heart. Have you no place for me?" In the words "we wronged no man" we find reference to charges of greed of gain and self-interested motives that had been whispered against him, and to which he refers again in <a href="/2_corinthians/8-20.htm" title="Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us:">2Corinthians 8:20</a>; <a href="/2_corinthians/12-18.htm" title="I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps?">2Corinthians 12:18</a>. Perhaps, also, he contrasts himself with others, who "did wrong and defrauded" (<a href="/1_corinthians/6-8.htm" title="No, you do wrong, and defraud, and that your brothers.">1Corinthians 6:8</a>).<p><span class= "bld">We have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.</span>--The word for "corrupt" is the same as that translated "defile" in <a href="/1_corinthians/3-17.htm" title="If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.">1Corinthians 3:17</a>, and is used with manifest reference to sensual impurity in <a href="/2_peter/2-12.htm" title="But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;">2Peter 2:12</a>; <a href="/jude/1-10.htm" title="But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.">Jude 1:10</a>; <a href="/revelation/19-2.htm" title="For true and righteous are his judgments: for he has judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.">Revelation 19:2</a>. The word for "defrauded" is not the same as that in <a href="/1_corinthians/6-8.htm" title="No, you do wrong, and defraud, and that your brothers.">1Corinthians 6:8</a>, and though meaning literally "to make a gain," or "seek a gain," had, with its cognate nouns, acquired a darker shade of meaning. The verb is used in obvious connection with impurity in <a href="/context/1_thessalonians/4-3.htm" title="For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication:">1Thessalonians 4:3-6</a>, where see Note. The nouns often appear in closest companionship with those which indicate that form of evil (<a href="/context/1_corinthians/5-10.htm" title="Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortionists, or with idolaters; for then must you needs go out of the world.">1Corinthians 5:10-11</a>; <a href="/ephesians/5-5.htm" title="For this you know, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.">Ephesians 5:5</a>; <a href="/2_peter/2-14.htm" title="Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:">2Peter 2:14</a>; <a href="/romans/1-29.htm" title="Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,">Romans 1:29</a>; <a href="/colossians/3-5.htm" title=" Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:">Colossians 3:5</a>). Mere greed of gain is commonly described by another word, which we translate "the love of money" (<a href="/luke/16-14.htm" title="And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.">Luke 16:14</a>; <a href="/1_timothy/6-10.htm" title="For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.">1Timothy 6:10</a>; <a href="/2_timothy/3-2.htm" title="For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,">2Timothy 3:2</a>). There seems, then, sufficient reason for connecting this verb also with the same class of sins. It would seem as if the word had colloquially acquired a secondary meaning, and was used of those who sought gain by ministering to the vice of others--who became, as it were, purveyors of impurity. The words, so understood, give us a momentary glimpse into a depth of evil from which we would willingly turn our eyes. But they leave no room for doubt that, in the infinite pruriency of such a city as Corinth, even such things as these had been said of the Apostle in the cynical jests of the paganising party of license. They tolerated such things themselves. They welcomed those who practised them to their friendship (<a href="/1_corinthians/5-11.htm" title="But now I have written to you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortionist; with such an one no not to eat.">1Corinthians 5:11</a>). They whispered, we may well believe, of private interviews in lonely lodgings, of public gatherings at night of men and women, and of the kiss of peace. They insinuated that, after all, he was even such a one as themselves. So, in like manner, was the fair fame of a disciple of St. Paul's attacked by Martial, not apparently with malignity, but only in the wantonness of jest. (See <span class= "ital">Excursus on the Later. Years of St.</span> <span class= "ital">Paul's Life,</span> at the end of the Acts of the Apostles.) So like charges were levelled at the reputation of Athanasius (Sozomen. <span class= "ital">Hist.</span> ii. 25), and of Hooker (Walton's <span class= "ital">Life</span>)<span class= "ital">.</span> So, generally, it was the ever-recurring calumny of the heathen against the Christians that their <span class= "ital">Agapae,</span> or Feasts of Love, were scenes of foulest license. It is obvious that there is much in the popular outcry against confession that partakes more or less of the same character. Against charges of this nature St. Paul utters his indignant denial: "No," he virtually says; "you find a place in your affections for those who do such things: can you not find a place also for us who are free from them<span class= "ital">?"</span> The sense which some have given to the word "corrupt," as referring only to doctrinal corruptions, is manifestly out of the question. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/2_corinthians/7.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 2.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Receive us;</span> rather, <span class="accented">open your hearts to us</span>; <span class="accented">make room for us</span> (comp. <a href="/mark/2-2.htm">Mark 2:2</a>; <a href="/john/2-6.htm">John 2:6</a>). It is an appeal to them to get rid of the <span class="accented">narrowness</span> of heart, the constricted affections, of which he has complained in <a href="/2_corinthians/6-12.htm">2 Corinthians 6:12</a>. <span class="cmt_word">We have wronged... corrupted... defrauded no man.</span> The "no man" in the original is placed first, and this emphatic position, together with its triple repetition, marks St. Paul's insistence on the fact that, whatever his enemies might insinuate, there was no <span class="accented">single member</span> of their Church who could complain of injury, moral harm, or unfair treatment from him. Clearly he is again thinking of definite slanders against himself. His sternness to the offender may have been denounced as a wrong; his generous sanction of broad views about clean and unclean meats, idol-offerings, etc., may have been represented as corrupting others by false teaching (<a href="/2_corinthians/2-17.htm">2 Corinthians 2:17</a>) or bad example (<a href="/2_corinthians/4-2.htm">2 Corinthians 4:2</a>; <a href="/1_thessalonians/4-6.htm">1 Thessalonians 4:6</a>); his urgency about the collection for the saints (<a href="/2_corinthians/12-16.htm">2 Corinthians 12:16</a>; <a href="/acts/20-33.htm">Acts 20:33</a>), or his assertion of legitimate authority, may have been specified as greed for power. The verb <span class="accented">pleonektein</span> is often used in connection with other verbs, implying sensuality. It is difficult for us even to imagine that St. Paul had ever been charged with gross immorality; but it may have been so, for in a corrupt atmosphere everything is corrupt. Men like Nero and Heliogabalus, being themselves the vilest of men, openly declared their belief that no man was pure, and many in the heathen world may have been inclined to similar suspicions. Of Whitefield, the poet says - <p><span class="accented">"His sins were such as Sodom never knew,<br />And calumny stood up to swear all true."</span> We know too that the Christians were universally charged with Thyestean banquets and promiscuous licentiousness. It is, however, more natural to take <span class="accented">pleonektein</span> in its <span class="accented">general</span> sense, in which it means "to overreach," "to claim or seize more than one's just rights" (see <a href="/2_corinthians/2-11.htm">2 Corinthians 2:11</a>) In <a href="/1_corinthians/9-1.htm">1 Corinthians 9:1-6</a> he is defending himself against similar charges, as also in this Epistle (2 Corinthians 5:12; 6:3; 10:7-11; 11; 12.<span class="accented">, passim</span>). For similar strains of defence, see those of Moses and of Samuel. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/2_corinthians/7-2.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Greek</div><span class="word">Make room for us in your hearts.</span><br /><span class="grk">Χωρήσατε</span> <span class="translit">(Chōrēsate)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Aorist Imperative Active - 2nd Person Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_5562.htm">Strong's 5562: </a> </span><span class="str2">From chora; to be in space, i.e. to pass, enter, or to hold, admit.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">We have wronged</span><br /><span class="grk">ἠδικήσαμεν</span> <span class="translit">(ēdikēsamen)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 1st Person Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_91.htm">Strong's 91: </a> </span><span class="str2">To act unjustly towards, injure, harm. From adikos; to be unjust, i.e. do wrong.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">no one,</span><br /><span class="grk">οὐδένα</span> <span class="translit">(oudena)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adjective - Accusative Masculine Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_3762.htm">Strong's 3762: </a> </span><span class="str2">No one, none, nothing. </span><br /><br /><span class="word">we have corrupted</span><br /><span class="grk">ἐφθείραμεν</span> <span class="translit">(ephtheiramen)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 1st Person Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_5351.htm">Strong's 5351: </a> </span><span class="str2">To corrupt, spoil, destroy, ruin. Probably strengthened from phthio; properly, to shrivel or wither, i.e. To spoil or to ruin.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">no one,</span><br /><span class="grk">οὐδένα</span> <span class="translit">(oudena)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adjective - Accusative Masculine Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_3762.htm">Strong's 3762: </a> </span><span class="str2">No one, none, nothing. </span><br /><br /><span class="word">we have exploited</span><br /><span class="grk">ἐπλεονεκτήσαμεν</span> <span class="translit">(epleonektēsamen)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 1st Person Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_4122.htm">Strong's 4122: </a> </span><span class="str2">To take advantage of, overreach, defraud. From pleonektes; to be covetous, i.e. to over-reach.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">no one.</span><br /><span class="grk">οὐδένα</span> <span class="translit">(oudena)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adjective - Accusative Masculine Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_3762.htm">Strong's 3762: </a> </span><span class="str2">No one, none, nothing. </span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/2_corinthians/7-2.htm">2 Corinthians 7:2 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/2_corinthians/7-2.htm">2 Corinthians 7:2 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/2_corinthians/7-2.htm">2 Corinthians 7:2 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/2_corinthians/7-2.htm">2 Corinthians 7:2 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/2_corinthians/7-2.htm">2 Corinthians 7:2 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/2_corinthians/7-2.htm">2 Corinthians 7:2 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/2_corinthians/7-2.htm">2 Corinthians 7:2 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/2_corinthians/7-2.htm">2 Corinthians 7:2 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/2_corinthians/7-2.htm">2 Corinthians 7:2 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/2_corinthians/7-2.htm">2 Corinthians 7:2 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/2_corinthians/7-2.htm">NT Letters: 2 Corinthians 7:2 Open your hearts to us (2 Cor. 2C iiC 2Cor ii cor iicor) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-1.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Corinthians 7:1"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Corinthians 7:1" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-3.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Corinthians 7:3"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Corinthians 7:3" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>