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?


In Context

12 The things that mark an apostle--signs, wonders and miracles--were done among you with great perseverance.

13 How were you inferior to the other churches, except that I was never a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!

14 Now I am ready to visit you for the third time, and I will not be a burden to you, because what I want is not your possessions but you. After all, children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

15 So 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?

16 Be that as it may, I have not been a burden to you. Yet, crafty fellow that I am, I caught you by trickery!

17 Did I exploit you through any of the men I sent you?

2nd Corinthians 12:15 in Other Translations

The 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.

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.