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Selected Verse: 1 Thessalonians 3:12 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 1Th 3:12 |
King James |
And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you: |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| 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,' Th1 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 Th1 3:13), as in Th2 3:5. So the Holy Ghost is called "the Lord" (Co2 3:17). "Love" is the fruit of the Spirit (Gal 5:22), and His office is "to stablish in holiness" (Th1 3:13; Pe1 1:2). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love - compare notes, Co2 9:8. The word "Lord" here probably refers to the Lord Jesus, as this is the name by which he is commonly designated in the New Testament; see the notes on Act 1:24. If this be so, then this is a petition to the Lord Jesus as the fountain of all grace and goodness. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Make you to increase and abound in love - They had already love to each other, so as to unite them in one Christian body; and he prays that they may have an increase and an abundance of it; that they might feel the same love to each other which he felt for them all. |
2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
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.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
5 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
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.
10 Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
24 And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen,
8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work: