2 Corinthians 12:15
And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
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John 10:10The thief comes not but to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I came that they may have life, and that they may have it abundantly.
2 Corinthians 1:6But whether we are afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effective in the endurance of the same sufferings which we also suffer; or whether we are consoled, it is for your consolation and salvation.
2 Corinthians 2:3And I wrote this very thing to you, that I might not, when I came, have sorrow from those of whom I ought to have joy; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
2 Corinthians 6:12Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.
2 Corinthians 12:9And he said to me: My grace is sufficient for thee; for my power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of 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 →