Now for a recompence in the same. — Better, perhaps, as a return, as expressing the idea of reciprocity. Children should requite the care and love of parents. (Comp. 2 Corinthians 12:14.) They, the Corinthians, are his spiritual children. (Comp. 1 Corinthians 4:15.) What does he demand of them, but that they should love him in return for his love? What they needed in their spiritual life was breadth and expansiveness of affection.
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2 Corinthians 6:13
13 Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.