And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. Treasury of Scripture will. 2 Corinthians 12:9 And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for you: for my strength is made perfect in weakness... 2 Corinthians 1:6,14 And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation... 2 Corinthians 2:3 And I wrote this same to you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice... 2 Corinthians 7:3 I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that you are in our hearts to die and live with you. John 10:10,11 The thief comes not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life... Galatians 4:10 You observe days, and months, and times, and years. Philippians 2:17 Yes, and if I be offered on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all. Colossians 1:24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake... 1 Thessalonians 2:8 So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted to you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls... 2 Timothy 2:10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory... you. Gr. your souls. 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... 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... though. 2 Corinthians 6:12,13 You are not straitened in us, but you are straitened in your own bowels... 2 Samuel 13:39 And the soul of king David longed to go forth to Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead. 2 Samuel 17:1-4 Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night... 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... 1 Corinthians 4:8-18 Now you are full, now you are rich, you have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God you did reign...
Context Concern for the Corinthian Church
11I am become a fool in glorying; you have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very most chief apostles, though I be nothing. 12Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds. 13For what is it wherein you were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong. 14Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not your's but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. 15And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. 16But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile. 17Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent to you? 18I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps? 19Again, think you that we excuse ourselves to you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying. 20For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found to you such as you would not: lest there be debates, contentions, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, arrogance, tumults: 21And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall mourn many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed. Parallel Verses 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?
Douay-Rheims Bible
But I most gladly will spend and be spent myself for your souls; although loving you more, I be loved less.
Darby Bible 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.
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.
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.
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