2 Corinthians 12:15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

 Reciprocating means to move forward and then back in a straight line. Paul’s implication here is that the love that he has shared is not returned. That in a worldly sense seems negative and contrary to the purpose of love, that it is a thing shared between two people to the mutual benefit of both. If you look at love as anything except Agape love, this would be true.

V16 But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.

Here once again, Paul speaks to the only nature of love the Corinthians had known up until this time. The issue here once again is not that the Agape Love acts as the world knows it but that by being poured out, it acted in the manner of its own true nature, to be poured out itself afresh on someone new.

Agape Love is not a reciprocating force, it does not return to its originator by moving backward. Agape Love is ever being poured out to a place it has never been before. Paul in referring to being caught with guile is speaking to the positive results that rather than wasting Agape Love on the one who showed it, turned and passed it on to those who had not yet received it.

How can you love God? How can you love Jesus Christ?

Matthew 25:40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

Agape Love is always moving forward, never looking back.