It is not our affection, but yours, that is restrained.
Cross References
Matthew 7:14But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.
2 Corinthians 4:8We are hard pressed on all sides, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair;
2 Corinthians 7:2Make room for us in your hearts. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have exploited no one.
Treasury of Scripture
You are not straitened in us, but you are straitened in your own bowels.
are not.
Ecclesiastes 6:9
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Job 36:16
Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.
Proverbs 4:12
When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
in your.
Philippians 1:8
For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
1 John 3:17
But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
