2 Corinthians 12:15
2 Corinthians chapter 12 · verse 15 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?
KJV
King James Version · 1611And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?
Context
v.14Behold, 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 yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
v.15This passage
v.16But be it so, I did not myself burden you; but, being crafty, I caught you with guile.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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.
- Galatians 4:10
Ye observe days, and months, and seasons, and years.
- 2 Samuel 18:33
And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!
- 2 Corinthians 1:6
But whether we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which worketh in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer:
- Colossians 1:24
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church;
- 2 Samuel 17:1
Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night: