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. "
— 2 Corinthians 12:15, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.”
“And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less? ”
“I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?”
“Now I will most gladly spend and be spent for your lives! If I love you more, am I to be loved less?”
“But I most gladly will spend and be spent myself for your souls: although loving you more, I be loved less.”
“And I will gladly give all I have for your souls. If I have the more love for you, am I to be loved the less?”
“And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.”
And the seal of my Apostleship has been set over you, with all patience, with signs and wonders and miracles.
For what is there that you have had which is less than the other churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this injury.
Behold, this is the third time I have prepared to come to you, and yet I will not be a burden to you. For I am seeking not the things that are yours, but you yourselves. And neither should the children store up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
And so, very willingly, I will spend and exhaust myself for the sake of your souls, loving you more, while being loved less.
And so be it. I have not burdened you, but instead, being astute, I obtained you by guile.
And yet, did I defraud you by means of any of those whom I sent to you?
I asked for Titus, and I sent a brother with him. Did Titus defraud you? Did we not walk with the same spirit? Did we not walk in the same steps?