2 Corinthians 12:15
And for the sake of your souls, I will most gladly spend my money and myself, even if the more I love you, the less you love me.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
16Be that as it may, I was not a burden to you; but crafty as I am, I caught you by trickery.
Cross References
2 Samuel 17:1Furthermore, Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me choose twelve thousand men and set out tonight in pursuit of David.
John 10:10The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness.
2 Corinthians 1:6If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation, which accomplishes in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we experience.
2 Corinthians 2:3I wrote to you as I did so that on my arrival I would not be grieved by those who ought to make me rejoice. I had confidence in all of you, that you would share my joy.
2 Corinthians 6:12It is not our affection, but yours, that is restrained.
2 Corinthians 12:9But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on 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 →