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Timothy’s Encouraging Report

1 Thessalonians 3:12

In 9 translations

BSB
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,
KJV
And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
WEB
May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,
ASV
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;
LSV
and the LORD cause you to increase and to abound in the love to one another, and to all, even as we also to you,
YLT
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,
DBY
But you, may the Lord make to exceed and abound in love toward one another, and toward all, even as we also towards you,
DRC
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,
GNV
And the Lord increase you, and make you abound in loue one toward another, and towarde all men, euen as we doe toward you:

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
ὑμᾶς δὲ ὁ κύριος πλεονάσαι καὶ περισσεύσαι τῇ ἀγάπῃ εἰς ἀλλήλους καὶ εἰς πάντας, καθάπερ καὶ ἡμεῖς εἰς ὑμᾶς,
RP2018
ὑμᾶς δὲ ὁ κύριος πλεονάσαι καὶ περισσεύσαι τῇ ἀγάπῃ εἰς ἀλλήλους καὶ εἰς πάντας, καθάπερ καὶ ἡμεῖς εἰς ὑμᾶς,
TR-Boyd
ὑμᾶς δὲ ὁ Κύριος πλεονάσαι καὶ περισσεύσαι τῇ ἀγάπῃ εἰς ἀλλήλους καὶ εἰς πάντας, καθάπερ καὶ ἡμεῖς εἰς ὑμᾶς,
SCR1894
υμας δε ο κυριος πλεονασαι και περισσευσαι τη αγαπη εις αλληλους και εις παντας καθαπερ και ημεις εις υμας

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  • Philippians 1:9And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight,
  • Romans 13:8Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
  • Matthew 22:39And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
  • 1 John 4:7–16Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God’s love was revealed…
  • 2 Thessalonians 1:3We are obligated to thank God for you all the time, brothers, as is fitting, because your faith is growing more and more, and your love for one another is increasing.
  • Galatians 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
  • 1 John 3:11–19This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another. Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did Cain slay him? Because his own deeds were evil,…
  • 1 Thessalonians 5:15Make sure that no one repays evil for evil. Always pursue what is good for one another and for all people.
  • 1 Thessalonians 4:9–10Now about brotherly love, you do not need anyone to write to you, because you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another. And you are indeed showing this love to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But…
  • Matthew 7:12In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets.
  • Galatians 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.
  • 1 Thessalonians 2:8We cared so deeply that we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God, but our own lives as well. That is how beloved you have become to us.
  • Galatians 5:13–14For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love. The entire law is fulfilled in a single decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
  • 2 Peter 1:7and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.
  • 2 Peter 3:18But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
  • 1 Corinthians 13:1–13If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute…

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