2 Corinthians 12:15

For my part, I will most gladly spend, yea, and will myself be spent, for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I to be loved the less?

Montgomery New Testament

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

14And now for the third time I am preparing to visit you. I will not be a burden to you, for I am not seeking yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

16But though it be granted that I was not a burden to you, yet, you say, this was my cunning with which I caught you by a trick.

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Cross References

John 10:10"The thief never comes except to steal and kill and destroy. I am come that they may have life, and may have it in abundance.

2 Corinthians 1:6If I am afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if I am receiving comfort, it is for your comfort - a comfort produced within you by your patient fortitude, under the same sufferings which I also am enduring.

2 Corinthians 2:3And for this very reason I wrote you, that I might not come only to be grieved by those who ought to give me joy; and because I trusted in you all, that my joy is the joy of all of you.

2 Corinthians 6:12There is no narrowness in my love; but the narrowness is in your own.

2 Corinthians 12:9but he has answered me. "My grace is sufficient for you; it is in weakness that my power is perfected."

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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