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


In Context

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; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

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

16 But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.

17 Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?

2 Corinthians 12:15 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

12:15So I will very gladly spend for you everything I have and expend myself as well. If I love you more, will you love me less?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

12:15But I most gladly will spend and be spent myself for your souls; although loving you more, I be loved less.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

12:15And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:15Now I shall most gladly spend and be utterly spent for your souls, if even in abundantly loving you I should be less loved.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

12:15And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:15And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:15I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

12:15and I most gladly will spend and be entirely spent for your souls, even if, more abundantly loving you, less I am loved.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:15And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.