New Testament · SCRIPTURE
2 Corinthians 12:15
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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?
BSB text & permissions
And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
KJV text & permissions
I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?
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ASVAmerican 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?
ASV text & permissions
Now I will spend most gladly, and will be utterly spent for your⁺ souls. If loving you⁺ more abundantly, am I loved less?
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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB
2 Corinthians 12
13 In what way were you inferior to the other churches, except that I was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!
14 See, 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.
15 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?
16 Be that as it may, I was not a burden to you; but crafty as I am, I caught you by trickery.
17 Did I exploit you by anyone I sent you?
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