1 Thessalonians 3:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:

1 Thessalonians 3:12 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

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Philippians 1:9
And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
Matthew 22:39
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
1 John 4:7-16
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. …
Romans 13:8
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
2 Thessalonians 1:3
We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 11-13)

In these words we have the earnest prayer of the apostle. He desired to be instrumental in the further benefit of the Thessalonians; and the only way to be so while at a distance was by prayer for them, together with his writing or sending to them. He desired that their faith might be perfected, which he could not be the proper cause or author of; for he pretended not to dominion over their faith,…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

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 Spi…