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2 Corinthians 12:15
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KJ21
And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you, though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.
ASV
And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?
AMP
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]?
AMPC
But I will most gladly spend [myself] and be utterly spent for your souls. If I love you exceedingly, am I to be loved [by you] the less?
BRG
And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
CSB
I will most gladly spend and be spent for you. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
CSBA
I will most gladly spend and be spent for you. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
CEB
I will very gladly spend and be spent for your sake. If I love you more, will you love me less?
CJB
And as for me, I will most gladly spend everything I have and be spent myself too for your sakes. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
CEV
So I will gladly give all I have and all I am. Will you love me less for loving you too much?
DARBY
Now *I* shall most gladly spend and be utterly spent for your souls, if even in abundantly loving you I should be less loved.
DLNT
But I will most gladly spend and be expended for your souls— though while loving you more, I am loved less!
DRA
But I most gladly will spend and be spent myself for your souls; although loving you more, I be loved less.
ERV
So I am happy to give everything I have for you. I will even give myself for you. If I love you more, will you love me less?
EASY
So I will be happy to give everything that I have to you. I will be happy to give myself too, because I want to help you. Perhaps I love you too much! But that should not mean that you will love me less than you should.
EHV
But I will very gladly spend and be completely spent on behalf of your souls. If I love you all the more, am I to be loved that much less?
ESV
I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
ESVUK
I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
EXB
So I ·am happy to [most gladly] ·give everything I have for you, even myself [L spend and be spent for your lives/souls]. If I love you more, will you love me less?
GNV
And I will most gladly bestow, and will be bestowed for your souls: though the more I love you, the less I am loved.
GW
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?
GNT
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?
HCSB
I will most gladly spend and be spent for you. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
ICB
So I am happy to give everything I have for you. I will even give myself for you. If I love you more, will you love me less?
ISV
I will be very glad to spend my money and myself for you. Do you love me less because I love you so much?
PHILLIPS
Now I am all ready to visit you for the third time, and I am still not going to be a burden to you. It is you I want—not your money. Children don’t have to put by their savings for their parents; parents do that for their children. Consequently I will most gladly spend and be spent for your good, even though it means that the more I love you the less you love me.
JUB
And I will very gladly spend and be utterly spent for your souls though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.
KJV
And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
AKJV
And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
LSB
So I will most gladly spend and be fully spent for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
LEB
But I will spend and be expended most gladly for your lives. If I love you much more, am I to be loved less?
TLB
I am glad to give you myself and all I have for your spiritual good, even though it seems that the more I love you, the less you love me.
MSG
Everything is in readiness now for this, my third visit to you. But don’t worry about it; you won’t have to put yourselves out. I’ll be no more of a bother to you this time than on the other visits. I have no interest in what you have—only in you. Children shouldn’t have to look out for their parents; parents look out for the children. I’d be most happy to empty my pockets, even mortgage my life, for your good. So how does it happen that the more I love you, the less I’m loved?
MEV
And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
MOUNCE
I · will most gladly spend and be spent on behalf of · your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
NOG
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?
NABRE
I will most gladly spend and be utterly spent for your sakes. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
NASB
I will most gladly spend and be expended for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
NASB1995
I will most gladly spend and be expended for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
NCB
I will be happy to spend and be spent for you. Are you going to love me less because I love you so much more?
NCV
So I am happy to give everything I have for you, even myself. If I love you more, will you love me less?
NET
Now I will most gladly spend and be spent for your lives! If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
NIRV
So I will be very happy to spend everything I have for you. I will even spend myself. If I love you more, will you love me less?
NIV
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?
NIVUK
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?
NKJV
And I will very gladly spend and be spent for your souls; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.
NLV
I am glad to give anything I have, even myself, to help you. When I love you more, it looks as if you love me less.
NLT
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.
NMB
I will very gladly give, and will be given, for your souls – though the more I love you, the less I am loved in return.
NRSVA
I will most gladly spend and be spent for you. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
NRSVACE
I will most gladly spend and be spent for you. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
NRSVCE
I will most gladly spend and be spent for you. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
NRSVUE
I will most gladly spend and be spent for you. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
NTFE
For my part, I will gladly spend and be spent on your behalf. If I love you all the more, am I going to be loved any the less?
OJB
But with simcha I will expend and be utterly expended for the nefashot (souls) of you [Pp 2:17]. If more abundantly I have ahavah for you, are you to have less ahavah for me?
RGT
And I will most gladly spend, and will be spent, for your souls; though, the more I love you, the less I am loved.
RSV
I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you the more, am I to be loved the less?
RSVCE
I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you the more, am I to be loved the less?
TLV
I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
VOICE
I would happily spend until I had nothing left if it was for you. But just because I love you more, should you love me less?
WEB
I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?
WE
All right then, I did not trouble you for any money. But some of you think that I have been mean and played a trick on you.
WYC
For I shall give most willfully [For I most willfully shall give], and I myself shall be given over for your souls; though I more love you, and be less loved.
YLT
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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