10And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;
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And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
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;
So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.
I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-12)In these words the apostle mentions the great duties, I. Of brotherly love. This he exhorts them to increase in yet more and more. The exhortation is introduced, not with a compliment, but with a commendation, because they were remarkable in the exercise of it, which made it less needful that he should write to them about it, 1 Thess. 4:9. Thus by his good opinion of them he insinuated himself int…
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