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2 Corinthians 12:15

And I most gladly will spend, and will be spent for your souls. Even though more earnestly loving you, the worse I am loved.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

In Context

14Behold, a third time I fare readily to come to you, and I will not be burdensome to you, for I seek not the things of you, but you. For the children ought not lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

16But let it be. I did not burden you. Nevertheless, being clever, I caught you with bait.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 17:1Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night.

John 10:10The thief comes not, except that he might steal and kill and destroy. I came so that they might have life, and have it more abundantly.

2 Corinthians 1:6But whether we are oppressed, it is for your encouragement and salvation, which works by endurance from the same sufferings that we also experience (and our hope for you is steadfast), or we are encouraged, it is for your encourage

2 Corinthians 2:3And I wrote this same thing to you, so that when I came, I would not have sadness from whom I ought to rejoice, having been confident toward you all, because my joy is of all of you.

2 Corinthians 6:12Ye are not limited in us, but ye are limited in your bowels.

2 Corinthians 12:9And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee, for my power is made fully perfect in weakness. More gladly therefore I will boast in my weaknesses, so that the power of the Christ may reside in me.

Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 12:12-21

Paul's Expostulations. ( a. d. 57.) 11 I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing. 12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds. 13 For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong. 14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you;… Read the whole commentary →

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