Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

I will be very glad to spend my money and myself for you. Do you love me less because I love you so much?

New American Standard Bible

I will most gladly spend and be expended for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

I will most gladly spend and be spent for you. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

A Conservative Version

And I most gladly will spend, and will be spent for your souls. Even though more earnestly loving you, the worse I am loved.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

But I will very gladly spend [my own resources] and be utterly spent for your souls. If I love you greatly, am I to be loved less [by you]?

An Understandable Version

So, I will most gladly spend [all I have], and [even] spend myself for the sake of your souls. If I love you so much, should you love me less [than that]?

Anderson New Testament

I, indeed, will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

Bible in Basic English

And I will gladly give all I have for your souls. If I have the more love for you, am I to be loved the less?

Common New Testament

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

Daniel Mace New Testament

I shall be glad to sacrifice myself and all I have for your service, even tho' it should happen that the more I love you, the less I should be beloved.

Darby Translation

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

Godbey New Testament

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

Goodspeed New Testament

And I will be glad to spend all I have and all I am for your sake. Are you going to love me the less for loving you so intensely?

John Wesley New Testament

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

Julia Smith Translation

And I very willingly will expend and be expended for your souls; if also loving you more abundantly, the less I should be loved.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

But I will spend and be expended most gladly for your lives. If I love you much more, am I to be loved less?

Modern King James verseion

And I will very gladly spend and be spent for your souls, even if loving you more and more, I am loved the less.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

I will very gladly bestow, and will be bestowed for your souls: though the more I love you, the less I am loved again.

Moffatt New Testament

And for your souls I will gladly spend my all and be spent myself. Am I to be loved the less because I love you more than others?

Montgomery New Testament

For my part, I will most gladly spend, yea, and will myself be spent, for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I to be loved the less?

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

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

Noyes New Testament

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

Sawyer New Testament

And I most gladly will spend and will be spent for your souls, even if the more abundantly I love you the less I am loved.

The Emphasized Bible

And, I, most gladly, will spend, and be fully spent, for your souls: - If I, exceedingly, love you, am I, the less, loved?

Thomas Haweis New Testament

And I will most cheerfully spend and be spent for your souls, though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.

Twentieth Century New Testament

For my part, I will most gladly spend, and be spent, for your welfare. Can it be that the more intensely I love you the less I am to be loved?

Webster

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

Weymouth New Testament

And as for me, most gladly will I spend all I have and be utterly spent for your salvation.

Williams New Testament

So in my own case, I will most happily spend my money and myself for your sakes. If I love you much more than I love others, am I to be loved less by you?

World English Bible

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

Worrell New Testament

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

Worsley New Testament

And I will with the greatest pleasure spend and be spent for your souls; even though the more I love you, the less I should be loved.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And
δέ 
De 
but, and, now, then, also, yet, yea, so, moreover, nevertheless, for, even, , not tr
Usage: 2184

I
ἐγώ 
Ego 
I, my, me, not tr
Usage: 174

will very gladly
ἥδιστα 
hedista 
Usage: 2

δαπανάω 
Dapanao 
spend, be at charges with, consume
Usage: 4

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

be spent
ἐκδαπανάω 
Ekdapanao 
Usage: 1

for
ὑπέρ 
Huper 
Usage: 138

you
ὑμῶν 
Humon 
ὑμᾶς 
Humas 
your, you, ye, yours, not tr.,
you, ye, for your sakes Trans, not tr,
Usage: 371
Usage: 314

εἰ 
Ei 
if, whether, that, not tr,
Usage: 218

περισσοτέρως 
Perissoteros 
Usage: 13

I love
G25
ἀγαπάω 
Agapao 
Usage: 92

the less
ἥττον 
hetton 
Usage: 2

Devotionals

Devotionals about 2 Corinthians 12:15

References

Fausets

Images 2 Corinthians 12:15

Prayers for 2 Corinthians 12:15

Context Readings

Paul's Concern For The Christians At Corinth

14 Now I'm ready to visit you for a third time, and I will not bother you for help. I do not want your things, but rather you yourselves. Children should not have to support their parents, but parents their children. 15 I will be very glad to spend my money and myself for you. Do you love me less because I love you so much? 16 Granting that I have not been a burden to you, was I a clever schemer who trapped you by some trick?



Cross References

Philippians 2:17

Yet even if I am being poured out like an offering as part of the sacrifice and service I offer for your faith, I rejoice, and I share my joy with all of you.

1 Thessalonians 2:8

We cared so deeply for you that we were determined to share with you not only the gospel of God but our very lives. That is how dear you were to us.

2 Corinthians 1:6

If we suffer, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we are suffering.

Colossians 1:24

Now I am rejoicing while suffering for you as I complete in my flesh whatever remains of the Messiah's sufferings on behalf of his body, which is the church.

2 Timothy 2:10

For that reason, I endure everything for the sake of those who have been chosen so that they, too, may receive the salvation that is in the Messiah Jesus, along with eternal glory.

2 Samuel 13:39

Meanwhile, King David longed to visit Absalom, since he was moved to compassion over Amnon's death.

2 Samuel 18:33

Deeply shaken, the king went up to the chamber overlooking the city gate, weeping bitterly and crying out as he went along, "My son Absalom! My son! My son Absalom! I wish I had died instead of you, Absalom my son, my son!"

John 10:10-11

The thief comes only to steal, slaughter, and destroy. I've come that they may have life, and have it abundantly.

1 Corinthians 4:8-18

You already have all you want! You have already become rich! You have become kings without us! I wish you really were kings so that we could be kings with you!

2 Corinthians 1:14

just as you have already understood us partially, so that on the Day of our Lord Jesus we can be your reason to boast, even as you are ours.

2 Corinthians 2:3

This is the very reason I wrote you, so that when I did come I might not be made sad by those who should have made me happy. For I had confidence that all of you would share the joy that I have.

2 Corinthians 6:12-13

We have not cut you off, but you have cut off your own feelings toward us.

2 Corinthians 7:3

I am not saying this to condemn you. I told you before that you are in our hearts to die together and to live together.

2 Corinthians 12:9

but he has told me, "My grace is all you need, because my power is perfected in weakness." Therefore, I will most happily boast about my weaknesses, so that the Messiah's power may rest on me.

2 Corinthians 12:14

Now I'm ready to visit you for a third time, and I will not bother you for help. I do not want your things, but rather you yourselves. Children should not have to support their parents, but parents their children.

Galatians 4:10

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

Hebrews 13:17

Continue to follow and be submissive to your leaders, since they are watching over your souls as those who will have to give a word of explanation. By doing this, you will be letting them carry out their duties joyfully, and not with grief, for that would be harmful for you.

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