I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

我也甘心乐意为你们的灵魂费财费力。难道我越发爱你们，就越发少得你们的爱吗？

我也甘心乐意为你们的灵魂费财费力。难道我越爱你们，就越少得你们的爱吗？

我也甘心乐意为你们的灵魂费财费力。难道我越爱你们，就越少得你们的爱吗？

为了你们的灵魂，我甘愿付出，包括自己的生命。难道我越爱你们，就越得不到你们的爱吗？

至于我，我甘心乐意为你们的灵魂付上一切，鞠躬尽瘁。难道我越爱你们，就越得不到你们的爱吗？

所以为了你们的灵魂，我会极其乐意地付出，甚至完全付出。难道我爱你们越多，就越少得到你们的爱吗？

我也甘心樂意為你們的靈魂費財費力。難道我越發愛你們，就越發少得你們的愛嗎？

我也甘心樂意為你們的靈魂費財費力。難道我越愛你們，就越少得你們的愛嗎？

我也甘心樂意為你們的靈魂費財費力。難道我越愛你們，就越少得你們的愛嗎？

為了你們的靈魂，我甘願付出，包括自己的生命。難道我越愛你們，就越得不到你們的愛嗎？

至於我，我甘心樂意為你們的靈魂付上一切，鞠躬盡瘁。難道我越愛你們，就越得不到你們的愛嗎？

論到我嘛、我頂喜歡地為你們開費，以至於費盡了我自己。是不是我越發愛你們，就該越發少得你們的愛呢？

所以為了你們的靈魂，我會極其樂意地付出，甚至完全付出。難道我愛你們越多，就越少得到你們的愛嗎？

我為爾靈、欣然委身盡己矣、我愈愛爾、而愈鮮見愛乎、

緣益爾曹、余歡然費財盡已、然我愈愛爾、愈失爾愛、

雖我愈愛爾、愈不見爾愛我、我仍為爾靈魂、甘於費財盡己、

吾為爾等靈魂之故、固不惜任何之犧牲、即犧牲本身、亦所甘心。豈吾之愛爾愈厚、而爾之愛我愈薄耶？

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?

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?

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.

I will most gladly spend and be spent for you. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

I will most gladly spend and be expended for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

And I will very gladly spend and be spent for your souls; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am 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 you. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

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

Now I will most gladly spend and be spent for your lives! If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

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

So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves, because you had become very dear to us.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church,

Even if I am to be poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrificial offering of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.

If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer.

Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice, for I felt sure of all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.

Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! Without us you have become kings! And would that you did reign, so that we might share the rule with you!For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute.To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are poorly dressed and buffeted and homeless,and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure;when slandered, we entreat. We have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, the refuse of all things.I do not write these things to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children.For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.I urge you, then, be imitators of me.That is why I sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church.Some are arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.

You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted in your own affections.In return( I speak as to children) widen your hearts also.

I do not say this to condemn you, for I said before that you are in our hearts, to die together and to live together.

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

You observe days and months and seasons and years!

Moreover, Ahithophel said to Absalom,“ Let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue David tonight.I will come upon him while he is weary and discouraged and throw him into a panic, and all the people who are with him will flee. I will strike down only the king,and I will bring all the people back to you as a bride comes home to her husband. You seek the life of only one man, and all the people will be at peace.”And the advice seemed right in the eyes of Absalom and all the elders of Israel.

Here for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden, for I seek not what is yours but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

just as you did partially understand us— that on the day of our Lord Jesus you will boast of us as we will boast of you.

But he said to me,“ My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

And the king was deeply moved and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept. And as he went, he said,“ O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!”

And the spirit of the king longed to go out to Absalom, because he was comforted about Amnon, since he was dead.