Parallel Verses
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?
New American Standard Bible
I will
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.
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?
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.
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.
Themes
Brotherly love » Special teachings concerning » Examples of
Ingratitude » Should be met with » Persevering love
Love » Love, brotherly special teachings concerning » Examples of
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Devotionals
Devotionals about 2 Corinthians 12:15
References
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Word Count of 37 Translations in 2 Corinthians 12:15
Prayers for 2 Corinthians 12:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Paul's Concern For The Christians At Corinth
14 Lo! this third time, I am holding myself, in readiness, to come unto you, and I will not allow myself to be a burden; 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, most gladly, will spend, and be fully spent, for your souls: - If I, exceedingly, love you, am I, the less, loved? 16 But let it be! - I, myself, did not burden you, - Notwithstanding, being crafty, with guile, I caught you?
Phrases
Cross References
Philippians 2:17
Nay! if I am even to be poured out as a drink-offering, upon the sacrifice and public ministry of your faith, I rejoice, yea rejoice together with you all, -
1 Thessalonians 2:8
Thus, yearning after you, we could have been well-pleased to impart unto you - not only the glad-message of God, but, our own lives also, - because, very dear to us, had ye become.
2 Corinthians 1:6
But, whether we are in tribulation, it is for your encouragement and salvation; whether we are encouraged, it is for your encouragement, which worketh inwardly by the endurance of the same sufferings which, we also, suffer; -
Colossians 1:24
Now, am I rejoicing in the sufferings on your behalf, and am filling up the things that lack of the tribulations of the Christ, in my flesh, in behalf of his body, which is the assembly,
2 Timothy 2:10
For this cause, am I enduring, all things, for the sake of the chosen, in order that, they also, may obtain, the salvation, which is in Christ Jesus along with glory age-abiding.
2 Samuel 13:39
And the spirit of the king pined to go forth unto Absolom, - for he had consoled himself over Amnon, in that he was dead.
2 Samuel 17:1-4
Then said Ahithophel unto Absolom: I pray thee, let me choose for myself, twelve thousand men, and arise, and pursue David to-night;
2 Samuel 18:33
Then was the king deeply moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept, - and, thus, he said as he went - O my son Absolom, my son - my son - Absolom! could, I, but have died in thy stead, O Absolom, my son - my son!
John 10:10-11
The thief, cometh not, save that he may thieve and slay and destroy: I, came, that, life, they might have, and, above measure, might have.
1 Corinthians 4:8-18
Already, ye have become full, already, ye are become rich, - apart from us, ye are become kings! And I would indeed ye had become kings, that, we also, with you, might have together become kings!
2 Corinthians 1:14
According as ye have also acknowledged us, in part, - that, your theme of boasting, we are, even indeed as, ye, also shall be , ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.
2 Corinthians 2:3
And I wrote this very thing - lest, if I came, I should have, grief, from those over whom I had need to rejoice, - having confidence in you all, that, my joy, is the joy, of you all.
2 Corinthians 6:12-13
Ye are not straitened in us, but are straitened in your hearts' affections;
2 Corinthians 7:3
Unto condemnation, I am not saying this , for I have before said - In our hearts, are ye, to the end we may die together and live together.
2 Corinthians 12:9
And at once he said unto me - Sufficient for thee, is my favour, for, my power, in weakness, is made complete. Most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may spread a tent over me.
2 Corinthians 12:14
Lo! this third time, I am holding myself, in readiness, to come unto you, and I will not allow myself to be a burden; for I seek not yours, but you; - for, the children, ought not to lay up, for the parents, but the parents for the children; -
Galatians 4:10
Days, ye do narrowly observer, and months, and seasons, and years: -
Hebrews 13:17
Be yielding unto them who are guiding you, and submit yourselves; for they are watching over your souls, as having an account to render, that, with joy the same they may be doing, and not with sighing, - for, unprofitable unto you, were, this.