And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
KJV
Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
Pour moi, je dépenserai très volontiers, et je me dépenserai moi-même pour vos âmes, dussé-je, en vous aimant davantage, être moins aimé de vous.
KJV
And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
o spiritual goods and even himself, for his neighbor's sake, according to the words of the Apostle ( 2 Cor. 12:15 ), "But I most gladly will spend and be spent myself for your souls." Whether, in this life, perfection consists in the observance of the commandments or of the couns…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 143 (Migne)
ol. 1045D] ejus transfigurentur, velut ministri justitiae, quorum finis erit secundum opera ipsorum (II Cor., XII, 13-15) .» Itaque, sicut Satanas transfiguratus in angelum lucis non potest non esse angelus tenebrarum, tanto perversior quanto praesumptuosior; ita et ministri ejus…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 150 (Migne)
habet, indefessas gratias referas, sciens scriptum esse: Libenter gloriabor in infirmitatibus meis (II Cor. XII, 15) . Et aliud: Flagellat Dominus omnem filium quem recipit (Hebr. XII, 6) . Non enim te in hoc saeculo tantis flagellis attereret, nisi post hoc saeculum sine flagell…
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