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


In Context

12 Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty works.

13 For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.

14 Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

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

16 But be it so, I did not myself burden you. But, being crafty, I caught you with deception.

17 Did I take advantage of you by anyone of them whom I have sent to you?

2 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 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 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.