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1 Thessalonians 3:12
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And may the Lord cause you to increase and overflow with love for one another and for everyone, just as we do for you.
And the Lorde make you to increase, & abound in loue one towards another, and towards all men, euen as we doe towards you:
and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you,
and may the Lord cause you to increase and overflow in love for one another, and for all people, just as we also do for you;
May the Lord make your love grow more and multiply for each other and for all people so that you will love others as we love you.
and may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another, and for all people, just as we also do for you;
and may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another, and for all people, just as we also do for you,
And may the Lord cause you to increase and overflow with love for one another and for everyone else, just as our love for you overflows,
May the Lord make your love for each other and for everyone else grow by leaps and bounds. That's how our love for you has grown.
And as for you, may the Lord make you increase and overflow in love toward each other, indeed, toward everyone, just as we do toward you;
But you, may the Lord make to exceed and abound in love toward one another, and toward all, even as we also towards you,
We pray that the Lord will make your love grow. We pray that he will give you more and more love for each other and for all people. We pray that you will love everyone in the same way we love you.
And the Lord increase you, and make you abound in loue one toward another, and towarde all men, euen as we doe toward you:
And may the LORD increase and enrich your love toward one another and toward all men, even as we love you:
May the Lord make your love for one another and for all people grow more and more and become as great as our love for you.
and may the Lord cause you to increase and to abound in love for one another and for all, just as also we do for you,
And may the Lord make you to increase and to abound in love toward one another and toward all, even as we do also toward you,
And may the Lord cause you to increase and excel and overflow in love for one another, and for all people, just as we also do for you;
and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you;
And the Lord give you increase of love in fullest measure to one another and to all men, even as our love to you;
and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,
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and he will cause your love to increase to one another, and to every man, even as we love you;
and increase and enlarge your love towards one another, and towards all men, even as we love you;
And the Lorde encrease you, & make you abounde in loue one towarde another, and towarde all men, euen as we also towarde you,
and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also [do] toward you;
and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,
And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love towards one another and towards all men, as we also do towards you,
and as for you, may the Lord teach you to love one another and all men, with a growing and a glowing love, resembling our love for you.
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and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also [do] toward you;
And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one towards another, and towards all [men], even as we [do] towards you:
And may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we do for you,
And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and to all, just as we do to you,
And may the Lord make your love for one another and for all people grow and overflow, just as our love for you overflows.
May the Lord make you grow in love for each other and for everyone. We have this kind of love for you.
And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we abound in love for you.
And, you, may the Lord cause to abound and excel in your love one toward another, and toward all, - even as, we, do toward you:
And may the Lord multiply you and make you abound in charity towards one another and towards all men: as we do also towards you,
and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and to all men, as we do to you,
and the lorde increace you and make you flowe ouer in love one towarde another and towarde all men even as we do towarde you
and you the Lord cause to increase and to abound in the love to one another, and to all, even as we also to you,
But the LORDE increace you, & make you flowe ouer in loue one towarde another, and towarde all men (euen as we do towarde you)
may the Lord make you increase and abound in mutual love, in love towards all men, as we do towards you:
We want God to fill y'all with such love that it overflows to everything and everyone around you. It's this type of love that produced the change in y'all.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the Lord: 1 Thessalonians 4:10, Psalms 115:4, Luke 17:5, 2 Corinthians 9:10, James 1:17, 2 Peter 3:18
abound: 1 Thessalonians 4:9, 1 Thessalonians 4:10, Philippians 1:9, 2 Thessalonians 1:3
love: 1 Thessalonians 5:15, Matthew 7:12, Matthew 22:39, Romans 13:8, 1 Corinthians 13:1-13, Galatians 5:6, Galatians 5:13, Galatians 5:14, Galatians 5:22, 2 Peter 1:7, 1 John 3:11-19, 1 John 4:7-16
even: 1 Thessalonians 2:8
Reciprocal: Mark 4:28 - first John 13:34 - That ye love John 15:12 - General Acts 14:23 - they commended 1 Corinthians 15:58 - abounding 1 Corinthians 16:14 - General Ephesians 1:4 - love Ephesians 4:16 - edifying Colossians 2:19 - increaseth 1 Timothy 2:1 - all men Hebrews 10:24 - love 1 Peter 1:22 - see 1 Peter 4:8 - fervent 2 Peter 1:8 - and abound
Cross-References
And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the Lord .
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And the Lord make you to increase,.... That is, the Lord the Spirit; so that the object of prayer, addressed by the apostle, is Father, Son, and Spirit, as in Revelation 1:4. The Alexandrian copy reads "God". The Spirit is God, equally with the Father and the Son, and so a fit object of prayer with them, which otherwise he would not be. The request is, that he would cause these saints to increase in number, as the first churches greatly did: and in the gifts of the Spirit, which he divides to men severally as he will; and in his graces, as in faith, in hope, in holiness, in humility, in knowledge, in spiritual joy and strength, an increase in all which is from him:
and abound in love one towards another; for though they were taught of God to love one another, and did do so, and the apostle had had good tidings of their love; yet it was not perfect, there was room for a further exercise of it, by serving each other by it, in things spiritual and temporal; and he had his request, for it did abound in everyone of them towards each other, 2 Thessalonians 1:3
and towards all men; the men of the world, who were without, were not members of the church, nor professors of the Christian religion, but enemies to that, and to Christ, and to them; and yet they were to love them as men, and pray for them, and do them all the good that lay in their power:
even as we do towards you; for the love of the apostle, and those with him, abounded more and more towards these saints, and was so far from being weakened, that it was increased by their absence from them; and they were more abundantly desirous of seeing them, and were even quite impatient until they sent to them, and heard of them.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love - compare notes, 2 Corinthians 9:8. The word “Lord” here probably refers to the Lord Jesus, as this is the name by which he is commonly designated in the New Testament; see the notes on Acts 1:24. If this be so, then this is a petition to the Lord Jesus as the fountain of all grace and goodness.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 12. Make you to increase and abound in love — They had already love to each other, so as to unite them in one Christian body; and he prays that they may have an increase and an abundance of it; that they might feel the same love to each other which he felt for them all.
