2 Corinthians 12:15
Modern Translations
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 Study 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 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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?
Classic Translations
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.

King James 2000 Bible
And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you, though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.

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?

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?

American King James Version
And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

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?

A Faithful Version
Now I will most happily spend, and am willing to be totally spent, for your souls; although the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.

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.

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?

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.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
And I will most gladly bestow, and will be bestowed for your soules: though the more I loue you, the lesse I am loued.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
I wyll very gladly bestowe, & wylbe bestowed for your sakes, though the more aboundauntly I loue you, the lesse I am loued agayne.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
I wil very gladly bestowe, and wyl be bestowed for youre soules: though ye more I loue you, the lesse am I loued agayne.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
I will very gladly bestowe and wilbe bestowed for youre soules: though the moare I love you ye lesse I am loved agayne.
Literal Translations
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.

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?

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.

Smith's Literal Translation
And I very willingly will expend and be expended for your souls; if also loving you more abundantly, the less I should be loved.

Literal Emphasis Translation
And I most gladly will spend and be utterly spent for your souls, if loving you more abundantly, am I loved less?

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
But I most gladly will spend and be spent myself for your souls; although loving you more, I be loved less.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And so, very willingly, I will spend and exhaust myself for the sake of your souls, loving you more, while being loved less.

Translations from Aramaic
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.

Lamsa Bible
I will gladly pay my expenses, and I will even give myself for the sake of your souls; though the more I love you, the less you love me.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
I, indeed, will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

Godbey New Testament
But I will most delightfully spend and be spent for your souls. If the more abundantly I love you am I loved the less?

Haweis New Testament
And I will most cheerfully spend and be spent for your souls, though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.

Mace New Testament
I shall be glad to sacrifice myself and all I have for your service, even tho' it should happen that the more I love you, the less I should be beloved.

Weymouth New Testament
And as for me, most gladly will I spend all I have and be utterly spent for your salvation.

Worrell New Testament
And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I to be loved the less?

Worsley New Testament
And I will with the greatest pleasure spend and be spent for your souls; even though the more I love you, the less I should be loved.
















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