2 Corinthians 12:15

I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

World English Bible

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, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

16Even so, I myself didn’t burden you. But you might say that being crafty, I caught you with deception.

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Cross References

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

John 10:10The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

2 Corinthians 1:6But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

2 Corinthians 2:3And I wrote this very thing to you, so that when I came, I wouldn’t have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all that my joy would be shared by all of you.

2 Corinthians 6:12You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.

2 Corinthians 12:9He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, 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 →

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