1 Thessalonians 3:12 May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you.

English Standard Version
and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you,

New American Standard Bible
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;

King James Bible
And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:

Holman Christian Standard Bible
And may the Lord cause you to increase and overflow with love for one another and for everyone, just as we also do for you.

International Standard Version
May the Lord greatly increase your love for each other and for all people, just as we love you.

American Standard Version
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;

Douay-Rheims Bible
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,

Darby Bible Translation
But you, may the Lord make to exceed and abound in love toward one another, and toward all, even as we also towards you,

Young's Literal Translation
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,

Cross References

Philippians 1:9
And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;

1 Thessalonians 4:1
Furthermore then we beseech you, brothers, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as you have received of us how you ought to walk and to please God, so you would abound more and more.

1 Thessalonians 4:10
And indeed you do it toward all the brothers which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brothers, that you increase more and more;

2 Thessalonians 1:3
We are bound to thank God always for you, brothers, as it is meet, because that your faith grows exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other abounds;

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

3:11-13 Prayer is religious worship, and all religious worship is due unto God only. Prayer is to be offered to God as our Father. Prayer is not only to be offered in the name of Christ, but offered up to Christ himself, as our Lord and our Saviour. Let us acknowledge God in all our ways, and he will direct our paths. Mutual love is required of all Christians. And love is of God, and is fulfilling the gospel as well as the law. We need the Spirit's influences in order to our growth in grace; and the way to obtain them, is prayer. Holiness is required of all who would go to heaven; and we must act so that we do not contradict the profession we make of holiness. The Lord Jesus will certainly come in his glory; his saints will come with him. Then the excellence as well as the necessity of holiness will appear; and without this no hearts shall be established at that day, nor shall any avoid condemnation.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

12. The "you" in the Greek is emphatically put first; "But" (so the Greek for "and") what concerns "YOU," whether we come or not, "may the Lord make you to increase and abound in love," &c. The Greek for "increase" has a more positive force; that for "abound" a more comparative force, "make you full (supplying 'that which is lacking,' 1Th 3:10) and even abound." "The Lord" may here be the Holy Spirit; so the Three Persons of the Trinity will be appealed to (compare 1Th 3:13), as in 2Th 3:5. So the Holy Ghost is called "the Lord" (2Co 3:17). "Love" is the fruit of the Spirit (Ga 5:22), and His office is "to stablish in holiness" (1Th 3:13; 1Pe 1:2).