2 Corinthians 12:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁵ I will most gladly spend and be spent for you. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ But I will most gladly spend [myself] and be utterly spent for your souls. If I love you exceedingly, am I to be loved [by you] the less?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

Common English Bible

¹⁵ I will very gladly spend and be spent for your sake. If I love you more, will you love me less?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ And so, very willingly, I will spend and exhaust myself for the sake of your souls, loving you more, while being loved less.

2 Corinthians 12:15 Cross References

1 Thessalonians 2:8

So deeply do we care for you that we are determined to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves, because you have become very dear to us.

Philippians 2:17

But even if I am being poured out as a libation over the sacrifice and the service of your faith, I rejoice, and I rejoice together with all of you;

2 Corinthians 1:6

If we are being afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation; if we are being consoled, it is for your consolation, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we are also suffering.

Colossians 1:24

I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am completing what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church.

2 Timothy 2:10

Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, so that they may also obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.

2 Corinthians 2:3

And I wrote as I did, so that when I came, I might not suffer grief from those who should have made me rejoice, for I am confident about all of you, that my joy would be the joy of all of you.

Hebrews 13:17

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls as those who will give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with sighing, for that would be harmful to you.

2 Corinthians 12:14

Here I am, ready to come to you this third time, and I will not be a burden because I do not want what is yours but you, for children ought not to save up for their parents but parents for their children.

2 Corinthians 12:9

but he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness.” So I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.

2 Corinthians 1:14

as you have already understood us in part—that on the day of the Lord Jesus we are your boast even as you are our boast.

2 Corinthians 7:3

I do not say this to condemn you, for I have already said that you are in our hearts, to die together and to live together.

Galatians 4:10

You are observing special days and months and seasons and years.

2 Samuel 18:33

The king was deeply moved and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept, and as he went he said, “O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!”

2 Samuel 13:39

And the heart of the king went out, yearning for Absalom, for he was now consoled over the death of Amnon.

Romans 9:3

For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my own brothers and sisters, my own flesh and blood.

2 Corinthians 7:2

Make room in your hearts for us; we have wronged no one; we have corrupted no one; we have taken advantage of no one.

2 Corinthians 11:11

And why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

2 Corinthians 4:12

So death is at work in us but life in you.