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

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?

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.

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;

Yea, and if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all:

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:

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.

And I wrote this very thing, 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.

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.

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.For, I think, 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.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.Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling- place;and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now.I write not these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.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.I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me.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.Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.

Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own affections.Now for a recompense in like kind( I speak as unto my children), be ye also enlarged.

I say it not to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die together and live together.

The thief cometh not, but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy: I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd layeth down his life for the sheep.

Ye observe days, and months, and seasons, and years.

Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:and I will come upon him while he is weary and weak- handed, and will make him afraid; and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only;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.And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.

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.

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.

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.

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!

And the soul of king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.