And 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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Interpretation
We owe it to good men, to stand up in the defence of their reputation; and we are under special obligations to those from whom we have received benefit, especially spiritual benefit, to own them as instruments in God's hand of good to us.
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This thought runs through 2 Corinthians 12:14-16.