I will most gladly spend and be spent for you. 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 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.

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

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?

We cared so much for you that we were pleased to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives, because you had become dear to us.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I am completing in my flesh what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for His body, that is, the church.

But even if I am poured out as a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you.

If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is experienced in your endurance of the same sufferings that we suffer.

This is why I endure all things for the elect: so that they also may obtain salvation, which is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.

I wrote this very thing so that when I came I wouldn’t have pain from those who ought to give me joy, because I am confident about all of you that my joy will also be yours.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account, so that they can do this with joy and not with grief, for that would be unprofitable for you.

You are already full! You are already rich! You have begun to reign as kings without us— and I wish you did reign, so that we could also reign with you!For I think God has displayed us, the apostles, in last place, like men condemned to die: We have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to men.We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are dishonored!Up to the present hour we are both hungry and thirsty; we are poorly clothed, roughly treated, homeless;we labor, working with our own hands. When we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;when we are slandered, we respond graciously. Even now, we are like the world’s garbage, like the dirt everyone scrapes off their sandals.I’m not writing this to shame you, but to warn you as my dear children.For you can have 10,000 instructors in Christ, but you can’t have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.Therefore I urge you to imitate me.This is why I have sent Timothy to you. He is my dearly loved and faithful son in the Lord. He will remind you about my ways in Christ Jesus, just as I teach everywhere in every church.Now some are inflated with pride, as though I were not coming to you.

You are not limited by us, but you are limited by your own affections.I speak as to my children. As a proper response, you should also be open to us.

I don’t say this to condemn you, for I have already said that you are in our hearts, to live together and to die together.

A thief comes only to steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance.“ I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

You observe special days, months, seasons, and years.

Ahithophel said to Absalom,“ Let me choose 12,000 men, and I will set out in pursuit of David tonight.I will attack him while he is weak and weary, throw him into a panic, and all the people with him will scatter. I will strike down only the kingand bring all the people back to you. When everyone returns except the man you’re seeking, all the people will be at peace.”This proposal seemed good to Absalom and all the elders of Israel.

Now I am ready to come to you this third time. I will not burden you, for I am not seeking what is yours, but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

as you have partially understood us— that we are your reason for pride, as you are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

But He said to me,“ My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore, I will most gladly boast all the more about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may reside in me.

The king was deeply moved and went up to the gate chamber and wept. As he walked, he cried,“ My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you, Absalom, my son, my son!”

Then King David longed to go to Absalom, for David had finished grieving over Amnon’s death.