15 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?
15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you;
15 I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
15 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?
15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for your souls; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.
15 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.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on 2 Corinthians 12:15
Commentary on 2 Corinthians 12:11-21
(Read 2 Corinthians 12:11-21)
We owe it to good men, to stand up in the defence of their reputation; and we are under special obligations to those from whom we have received benefit, especially spiritual benefit, to own them as instruments in God's hand of good to us. Here is an account of the apostle's behaviour and kind intentions; in which see the character of a faithful minister of the gospel. This was his great aim and design, to do good. Here are noticed several sins commonly found among professors of religion. Falls and misdeeds are humbling to a minister; and God sometimes takes this way to humble those who might be tempted to be lifted up. These vast verses show to what excesses the false teachers had drawn aside their deluded followers. How grievous it is that such evils should be found among professors of the gospel! Yet thus it is, and has been too often, and it was so even in the days of the apostles.