2 Corinthians 12:15
But I will most delightfully spend and be spent for your souls. If the more abundantly I love you am I loved the less?
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
In Context
16But let it he so, I did not burden you; but, being crafty, I caught you with guile.
Cross References
John 10:10The thief does not come, but that he may steal, and slay, and destroy: I came that they may have life, and have it more abundantly.
2 Corinthians 1:6But if we are troubled it is in behalf of your consolation and salvation; if we are comforted, it is in behalf of your consolation, working in you through the endurance of the same sufferings which we also suffer.
2 Corinthians 2:3And I wrote this same thing, in order that, having come, I may not have grief over those from whom it behooves me to rejoice; and having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
2 Corinthians 6:12Be not straitened in reference to us, but be straitened in your own affections.
2 Corinthians 12:9And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore most delightfully I will glory the more in my infirmities, in order that the power of Christ may abide 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 →