2 Corinthians 12:15

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And I will most gladly spend and be spent for {G5590} your souls. If {G2532} I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐγὼ δὲ ἥδιστα δαπανήσω καὶ ἐκδαπανηθήσομαι ὑπὲρ τῶν ψυχῶν ὑμῶν· εἰ καὶ περισσοτέρως ὑμᾶς ἀγαπῶν, ἧττον ἀγαπῶμαι.

Transliteration

I de hēdista dapanēsō and ekdapanēthēsomai for the psychōn of you; ei kai perissōterōs you agapōn, hētton agapōmai.

Grammar Details

• *de*: postpositive particle - but/and/now
• *hēdista*: adverb, superlative - most gladly/very gladly
• *dapanēsō*: future indicative, active, 1st singular - I will spend
• *ekdapanēthēsomai*: future indicative, passive, 1st singular - I will be spent completely
• *psychōn*: genitive, feminine, plural - of souls/lives
• *ei kai*: concessive conjunction - even if/although
• *perissōterōs*: adverb, comparative - more abundantly
• *agapōn*: present participle, active, nominative, masculine, singular - loving
• *hētton*: adverb, comparative - less
• *agapōmai*: present indicative, passive, 1st singular - I am loved

Word Meanings

• *hēdista*: most gladly/very gladly/most pleasantly
• *dapanēsō*: I will spend/I will expend/I will use up
• *ekdapanēthēsomai*: I will be spent completely/I will be utterly exhausted
• *psychōn*: souls/lives
• *perissōterōs*: more abundantly/more exceedingly/more greatly
• *agapōn*: loving/having affection for
• *hētton*: less/to a smaller degree
• *agapōmai*: I am loved/I am regarded with affection

Referenced Verses

• 1 Thess 2:8 : 8 even so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were well pleased to impart unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were become very dear to us.
• Phil 2:17 : 17 Yea, and if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all:
• Col 1:24 : 24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church;
• 2 Cor 1:6 : 6 But whether we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which worketh in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer:
• 2 Tim 2:10 : 10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
• 2 Cor 2:3 : 3 And I wrote this very thing, {G5213} lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is [the joy] of you all.
• 2 Cor 6:12-13 : 12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own affections. 13 Now for a recompense in like kind (I speak as unto [my] children), be ye also enlarged.
• 2 Cor 7:3 : 3 I say it not to condemn [you]: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die together and live together.
• 2 Cor 12:9 : 9 And he hath said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for [my] power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
• 2 Cor 12:14 : 14 Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a burden to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
• Gal 4:10 : 10 Ye observe days, and months, and seasons, and years.
• 2 Sam 13:39 : 39 And [the soul of] king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.
• 2 Sam 17:1-4 : 1 Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night: 2 and I will come upon him while he is weary and weak-handed, {H3027} and will make him afraid; and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only; 3 and I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: [so] all the people shall be in peace. 4 And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
• 2 Sam 18:33 : 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, my son, my son Absalom! would I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!
• John 10:10-11 : 10 The thief cometh not, but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy: I came that they may have life, and {G2443} may have [it] abundantly. 11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd layeth down his life for the sheep.
• 1 Cor 4:8-9 : 8 Already are ye filled, already ye are become rich, ye have come to reign without us: yea and I would that ye did reign, that we also might reign with you. 9 For, I think, {G3754} God hath set forth us the apostles last of all, as men doomed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, both to angels and men. 10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye have glory, but we have dishonor. 11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place; 12 and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure; 13 being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now. 14 I write not these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. 15 For though ye have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet [have ye] not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begat you through the gospel. 16 I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me. 17 For this cause have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who shall put you in remembrance of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every church. 18 Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
• Heb 13:17 : 17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit [to them]: for they watch in behalf of your souls, as they that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: for this [were] unprofitable for you.
• 2 Cor 1:14 : 14 as also ye did acknowledge us in part, that we are your glorying, even as ye also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.