2 Corinthians 12:15 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁵ I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you the more, am I to be loved the 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, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves, because you had become very dear to us.

Philippians 2:17

Even if I am to be poured as a libation upon the sacrificial offering of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.

2 Corinthians 1:6

If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer.

Colossians 1:24

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I complete 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, that they also may obtain salvation in Christ Jesus with its eternal glory.

2 Corinthians 2:3

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

Hebrews 13:17

Obey your leaders and submit to them; for they are keeping watch over your souls, as men who will have to give account. Let them do this joyfully, and not sadly, for that would be of no advantage to you.

2 Corinthians 12:14

Here for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden, for I seek not what is yours but you; for children ought not to lay 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 my power is made perfect in weakness.” I will all the more gladly boast of my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

2 Corinthians 1:14

as you have understood in part, that you can be proud of us as we can be of you, on the day of the Lord Jesus.

2 Corinthians 7:3

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

Galatians 4:10

You observe days, and months, and seasons, and years!

2 Samuel 18:33

And 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 spirit of the king longed to go forth to Absalom; for he was comforted about Amnon, seeing he was dead.

Romans 9:3

For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen by race.

2 Corinthians 7:2

Open your hearts to 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.