15And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
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So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.
And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:
Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-21)In these verses the apostle addresses himself to the Corinthians two ways:— I. He blames them for what was faulty in them; namely, that they had not stood up in his defence as they ought to have done, and so made it the more needful for him to insist so much on his own vindication. They in manner compelled him to commend himself, who ought to have been commended of them 2 Cor. 12:11. And had they,…
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