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2 Corinthians 12:15

New English Translation

Now I will most gladly spend and be spent for your lives! If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

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The king longed to go to Absalom, for he had since been consoled over the death of Amnon.

(19:1) The king then became very upset. He went up to the upper room over the gate and wept. As he went he said, “My son, Absalom! My son, my son, Absalom! If only I could have died in your place! Absalom, my son, my son!”

For I could wish that I myself were accursed – cut off from Christ – for the sake of my people, my fellow countrymen,

just as also you have partly understood us, that we are your source of pride just as you also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort that you experience in your patient endurance of the same sufferings that we also suffer.

Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

Look, for the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you, because I do not want your possessions, but you. For children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

But he said to me, “My grace is enough for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” So then, I will boast most gladly about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may reside in me.

And I wrote this very thing to you, so that when I came I would not have sadness from those who ought to make me rejoice, since I am confident in you all that my joy would be yours.

As a result, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

Make room for us in your hearts; we have wronged no one, we have ruined no one, we have exploited no one.

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

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

But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice together with all of you.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my physical body – for the sake of his body, the church – what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ.

with such affection for you we were happy to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives, because you had become dear to us.

So I endure all things for the sake of those chosen by God, that they too may obtain salvation in Christ Jesus and its eternal glory.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls and will give an account for their work. Let them do this with joy and not with complaints, for this would be no advantage for you.




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