2 Corinthians 12:15
I, indeed, will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
16Be it so, indeed; I did not burden you; but being crafty, I caught you by deceit.
Cross References
John 10:10The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in abundance.
2 Corinthians 1:6And if we are afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which salvation is effected by your patient endurance of the same sufferings that we also suffer; (and our hope in you is steadfast;) or if we are consoled, it is for your comfort and salvation;
2 Corinthians 2:3And I wrote to you this very thing, that, on coming to you, I might not have sorrow from those from whom I ought to receive joy; because I have confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
2 Corinthians 6:12you are not straitened in us, but you are straitened in your own affections.
2 Corinthians 12:9and he said to me: My grace is sufficient for you; for my power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, will I boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may abide upon 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 →