Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version 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? New Living Translation I will gladly spend myself and all I have for you, even though it seems that the more I love you, the less you love me. English Standard Version I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less? Berean Standard Bible And for the sake of your souls, I will most gladly spend my money and myself. If I love you more, will you love me less? Berean Literal Bible Now I will spend most gladly, and will be utterly spent, for your souls. If loving you more abundantly, am I loved less? King James Bible And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. New King James Version And I will very gladly spend and be spent for your souls; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved. 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? NASB 1995 I will most gladly spend and be expended for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less? NASB 1977 And I will most gladly spend and be expended for your souls. If I love you the more, am I to be loved the less? Legacy Standard Bible So I will most gladly spend and be fully spent for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less? Amplified Bible 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]? Christian Standard Bible I will most gladly spend and be spent for you. If I love you more, am I to be loved less? Holman Christian Standard Bible I will most gladly spend and be spent for you. If I love you more, am I to be loved less? 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? Aramaic Bible in Plain English But I cheerfully also shall spend and I would even give up my person for the sake of your souls, even though, the more I love you, the less you love me. Contemporary English Version So I will gladly give all I have and all I am. Will you love me less for loving you too much? Douay-Rheims Bible But I most gladly will spend and be spent myself for your souls; although loving you more, I be loved less. English Revised Version And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less? GOD'S WORD® Translation I will be very glad to spend whatever I have. I'll even give myself for you. Do you love me less because I love you so much? Good News Translation I will be glad to spend all I have, and myself as well, in order to help you. Will you love me less because I love you so much? 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? Literal Standard Version and I will most gladly spend and be entirely spent for your souls, even if, loving you more abundantly, I am loved less. Majority Standard Bible And for the sake of your souls, I will most gladly spend my money and myself. If I love you more, will you love me less? New American Bible I will most gladly spend and be utterly spent for your sakes. If I love you more, am I to be loved 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 Revised Standard Version I will most gladly spend and be spent for you. 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? Webster's Bible Translation 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. 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? Young's 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. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Concern for the Corinthians…14See, I am ready to come to you a third time, and I will not be a burden, because I am not seeking your possessions, but you. For children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children. 15And for the sake of your souls, I will most gladly spend my money and myself. If I love you more, will you love me less? 16Be that as it may, I was not a burden to you; but crafty as I am, I caught you by trickery.… Cross References Romans 9:3 For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own flesh and blood, 2 Corinthians 1:6 If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which accomplishes in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we experience. 2 Corinthians 7:2 Make room for us in your hearts. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have exploited no one. 2 Corinthians 11:11 Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do! Philippians 2:17 But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you. Colossians 1:24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is lacking in regard to Christ's afflictions for the sake of His body, which is the church. 1 Thessalonians 2:8 We cared so deeply that we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God, but our own lives as well. That is how beloved you have become to us. Treasury of Scripture And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. will. 2 Corinthians 12:9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 2 Corinthians 1:6,14 And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation… 2 Corinthians 2:3 And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all. you. 2 Corinthians 12:14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. Hebrews 13:17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you. though. 2 Corinthians 6:12,13 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels… 2 Samuel 13:39 And the soul of king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead. 2 Samuel 17:1-4 Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night: … Jump to Previous Abundantly Entirely Expend Gladly Love Loving Salvation Souls Spend Spent UtterlyJump to Next Abundantly Entirely Expend Gladly Love Loving Salvation Souls Spend Spent Utterly2 Corinthians 12 1. For commending of his apostleship, though he might glory of his wonderful revelations,9. yet he rather chooses to glory of his infirmities; 11. blaming the Corinthians for forcing him to this vain boasting. 14. He promises to come to them again; but yet altogether in the affection of a father; 20. although he fears he shall to his grief find many offenders, and public disorders there. (15) And I will very gladly spend and be spent.--The pronoun is emphatic, I, for my part. The latter verb implies spending to the last farthing. As he sought not theirs, but them, so he is ready to spend for them not only all that he has, but even, as if to the verge of exhaustion, all that he is. And yet with all this there was the painful consciousness of toiling without adequate return. It seemed to him, in his intense craving for affection, as if their love varied inversely with his own.Verse 15. - Spend and be spent; rather, spend and be outspent, or spent to the uttermost (Philippians 2:17). Parallel Commentaries ... Greek Andδὲ (de) Conjunction Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc. for the sake of ὑπὲρ (hyper) Preposition Strong's 5228: Gen: in behalf of; acc: above. your ὑμῶν (hymōn) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou. souls, ψυχῶν (psychōn) Noun - Genitive Feminine Plural Strong's 5590: From psucho; breath, i.e. spirit, abstractly or concretely. I ἐγὼ (egō) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative 1st Person Singular Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I. {will} most gladly ἥδιστα (hēdista) Adverb - Superlative Strong's 2236: Most gladly, most pleasantly. Neuter plural of the superlative of the same as hedeos; with great pleasure. spend my money δαπανήσω (dapanēsō) Verb - Future Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular Strong's 1159: To spend, bear expense, waste, squander. From dapane; to expend, i.e. to incur cost, or to waste. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. [myself]. ἐκδαπανηθήσομαι (ekdapanēthēsomai) Verb - Future Indicative Passive - 1st Person Singular Strong's 1550: To spend (give out) completely, exhaust. From ek and dapanao; to expend, i.e. exhaust. If εἰ (ei) Conjunction Strong's 1487: If. A primary particle of conditionality; if, whether, that, etc. I love ἀγαπῶν (agapōn) Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 25: To love, wish well to, take pleasure in, long for; denotes the love of reason, esteem. Perhaps from agan; to love. you ὑμᾶς (hymas) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 2nd Person Plural Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou. more, περισσοτέρως (perissoterōs) Adverb Strong's 4057: Greatly, exceedingly, abundantly, vehemently. Adverb from perissos; superabundantly. will [you] love me ἀγαπῶμαι (agapōmai) Verb - Present Indicative Middle or Passive - 1st Person Singular Strong's 25: To love, wish well to, take pleasure in, long for; denotes the love of reason, esteem. Perhaps from agan; to love. less? ἧσσον (hēsson) Adjective - Accusative Neuter Singular - Comparative Strong's 2276: Lesser, inferior, weaker. Neuter of comparative of heka used for that of kakos; worse; by implication, less. Links 2 Corinthians 12:15 NIV2 Corinthians 12:15 NLT 2 Corinthians 12:15 ESV 2 Corinthians 12:15 NASB 2 Corinthians 12:15 KJV 2 Corinthians 12:15 BibleApps.com 2 Corinthians 12:15 Biblia Paralela 2 Corinthians 12:15 Chinese Bible 2 Corinthians 12:15 French Bible 2 Corinthians 12:15 Catholic Bible NT Letters: 2 Corinthians 12:15 I will most gladly spend and be (2 Cor. 2C iiC 2Cor ii cor iicor) |
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