Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
Themes
Brotherly love » Special teachings concerning » Examples of
Ingratitude » Should be met with » Persevering love
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Devotionals
Devotionals about 2 Corinthians 12:15
References
Fausets
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 Behold, I have prepared to come to you the third time; and I will not act with negligence to you: for I seek not your things, but you: for children ought not to treasure up for parents, but parents for children. 15 And I very willingly will expend and be expended for your souls; if also loving you more abundantly, the less I should be loved. 16 And "let it be, I overloaded you not: but being dexterous, I took you by contrivance.
Phrases
Cross References
Philippians 2:17
But if also I am poured out upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice together with you all.
1 Thessalonians 2:8
So longing for you, we are contented to impart to you, not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because ye are dearly beloved to us.
2 Corinthians 1:6
And whether we are pressed, for your comfort and salvation, being well wrought in endurance of the same sufferings which we also suffer: whether we are comforted, for your comfort and salvation.
Colossians 1:24
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill again the necessities of the pressures of Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the church.
2 Timothy 2:10
For this I endure all things for the chosen, that they also might attain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
2 Samuel 13:39
And David the king was fixed to go forth to Absalom: for he was comforted for Amnon, for he died.
2 Samuel 17:1-4
And Ahithophel will say to Absalom, I will now choose twelve thousand men. and I will rise and pursue after David this night:
2 Samuel 18:33
And the king will be moved, and he will go up into the upper chamber of the gate and weep: and thus he said in his going, My son Absalom! my son, my son Absalom I who will give my death, me for thee, Absalom my son, my son!
John 10:10-11
The thief comes not, except that he steal, and sacrifice, and destroy: I came that they might have life, and have above measure.
1 Corinthians 4:8-18
Already were ye satisfied, already were ye rich, without us ye reigned; and I would ye also reigned, that we also might reign together with you.
2 Corinthians 1:14
As also ye observed us by part, that we are your boast, as also ye ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.
2 Corinthians 2:3
And I wrote this same to you lest, coming, I should have sadness from whom I ought to rejoice, trusting to you all, that mine is the joy of you all.
2 Corinthians 6:12-13
Ye are not contracted in us, but ye are contracted in your bowels.
2 Corinthians 7:3
I speak not to condemnation: for I have said before, ye are in our hearts to die together, and live together.
2 Corinthians 12:9
And he said to me, My grace suffices thee: for my power is perfected in weakness. Therefore very willingly will I boast rather in my weaknesses, that Christ's power may lodge upon me.
2 Corinthians 12:14
Behold, I have prepared to come to you the third time; and I will not act with negligence to you: for I seek not your things, but you: for children ought not to treasure up for parents, but parents for children.
Galatians 4:10
Ye observe narrowly days, and months, and times, and years.
Hebrews 13:17
Believe them guiding you, and yield: (for they watch vigilantly for your souls, as going to return the word.) that with joy they might do this, and not lamenting: for this unprofitable for you.