1 Thessalonians 3:12
and increase and enlarge your love towards one another, and towards all men, even as we love you;
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
11And may God our Father, and our Lord Jesus the Messiah, direct our way unto you;
Cross References
Matthew 7:12Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you; so also do ye to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
Luke 17:5And the Legates said to our Lord: Increase our faith.
1 Corinthians 13:1If I could speak in every tongue of men, and in that of angels, and there should be no love in me, I should be like brass that resoundeth, or the cymbal that maketh a noise.
Galatians 5:6For, in the Messiah Jesus, circumcision is nothing, neither is uncircumcision, but the faith that is perfected by love.
Galatians 5:22But the fruits of the Spirit are, love, joy, peace, long suffering, suavity, kindness, fidelity, modesty, patience.
1 Thessalonians 2:8so we also fondled you, and were desirous to impart to you, not the gospel of God merely, but also our own soul, because ye were dear to us.
Matthew Henry on 1 Thessalonians 3:12-13
Apostolic Prayer. ( a. d. 51.) 11 Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you. 12 And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you: 13 To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints. In these words we have the earnest prayer of the apostle. He desired to be instrumental in the further benefit of the… Read the whole commentary →