2 Corinthians 12:15
And I will very gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I to be loved the less?
Revised King James New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
16But be that as it may, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.
Cross References
John 10:10The thief comes only to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I have come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
2 Corinthians 1:6But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which works in you when you patiently endure the same sufferings which we suffer.
2 Corinthians 2:3And I wrote this same thing to you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from those who ought to make me rejoice; for I had confidence in all of you, that my joy would be the joy of all of you.
2 Corinthians 6:12There is no restraint in our affection for you, but you are restrained in your affection for us.
2 Corinthians 12:9And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for you: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Therefore, most gladly will I boast in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest 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 →