Parallel Verses
Williams New Testament
May the Lord make you increase and overflow in love for one another and for all men, as my love for you does,
New American Standard Bible
and may the Lord cause you to increase and
King James Version
And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
Holman Bible
And may the Lord cause you to increase and overflow with love
International Standard Version
May the Lord greatly increase your love for each other and for all people, just as we love you.
A Conservative Version
And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love toward each other, and toward all men, just as also we toward you,
American Standard Version
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;
Amplified
And may the Lord cause you to increase and excel and overflow in love for one another, and for all people, just as we also do for you;
An Understandable Version
And may the Lord cause your love for one another, and for everyone, to increase and overflow, just as ours does for you also.
Anderson New Testament
And may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love to one another and to all, even as we toward you,
Bible in Basic English
And the Lord give you increase of love in fullest measure to one another and to all men, even as our love to you;
Common New Testament
and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we do for you,
Daniel Mace New Testament
may the Lord make you increase and abound in mutual love, in love towards all men, as we do towards you:
Darby Translation
But you, may the Lord make to exceed and abound in love toward one another, and toward all, even as we also towards you,
Godbey New Testament
and the Lord fill you and cause you to superabound in divine love toward one another, and toward all, even as we also do towards you;
Goodspeed New Testament
May the Lord make your love for one another and for all men wide and full like my love for you,
John Wesley New Testament
And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love towards one another and towards all men, as we also do towards you,
Julia Smith Translation
And the Lord increase you and make you to abound in love to one another, and to all, as also we to you:
King James 2000
And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
Lexham Expanded Bible
and [may] the Lord [cause] you to increase and to abound in love for one another and for all, just as also we [do] for you,
Modern King James verseion
And may the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all, even as we also toward you,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and the Lord increase you, and make you flow over in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you,
Moffatt New Testament
And may the Lord make you increase and excel in love to one another and to all men (as is my love for you),
Montgomery New Testament
Meanwhile, may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all men, even as I do toward you.
NET Bible
And may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we do for you,
New Heart English Bible
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,
Noyes New Testament
and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all, even as we do in love toward you;
Sawyer New Testament
and the Lord cause you to be full and abound with love one to another and to all men, as we also to you,
The Emphasized Bible
And, you, may the Lord cause to abound and excel in your love one toward another, and toward all, - even as, we, do toward you:
Thomas Haweis New Testament
And the Lord cause you to abound and overflow with love one to another, and towards all men, as we also do to you:
Twentieth Century New Testament
And for you, may the Lord fill you to overflowing with love for one another and for every one, just as we are filled with love for you;
Webster
And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one towards another, and towards all men, even as we do towards you:
Weymouth New Testament
and as for you, may the Lord teach you to love one another and all men, with a growing and a glowing love, resembling our love for you.
World English Bible
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,
Worrell New Testament
and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all, as we also do toward you,
Worsley New Testament
and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love to one another, and to all men, as we do towards you:
Youngs Literal Translation
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,
Themes
Brethren » Duty to » Abounding
Brotherly love » Special teachings concerning » Abounding
spiritual Development » Spiritual growth, encouraged » In love
Duty » To brethren » Abounding
spiritual Growth » Encouraged » In love
Love » Love, brotherly special teachings concerning » Abounding
Love » Special teachings concerning » Abounding
Love to man » Saints should » Abound in
Topics
Interlinear
De
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0
Perisseuo
Eis
εἰς
Eis
Usage: 1267
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Thessalonians 3:12
Prayers for 1 Thessalonians 3:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer For The Church
11 Now may our God and Father Himself and our Lord Jesus guide my way to you! 12 May the Lord make you increase and overflow in love for one another and for all men, as my love for you does, 13 so that He may strengthen your hearts to be faultless in purity in the sight of God, when our Lord Jesus comes back with all His consecrated ones.
Cross References
Philippians 1:9
And it is my prayer that your love may overflow still more and more, directed by fuller knowledge and keener insight,
1 Thessalonians 4:9-10
Now as to brotherly love, you have no need of anyone's writing you, for you have yourselves been taught by God to love one another,
1 Thessalonians 5:15
Take care that none of you ever pays back evil for evil, but always keep looking for ways to show kindness to one another and everybody.
2 Thessalonians 1:3
We always ought to be thanking God for you, brothers, as it is right to do so, because your faith is growing so much and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing
Galatians 5:6
For in union with Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor lack of it counts for anything; but only faith that is spurred on to action by love.
Galatians 5:22
But the product of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
1 John 3:11-19
it is so because the message that you have heard from the beginning is this: We should love one another.
1 John 4:7-16
Dearly beloved, let us practice loving one another, because love originates with God, and everyone who practices loving is a child of God and knows God by experience.
Matthew 7:12
Then you must practice dealing with others as you would like for them to deal with you, for this is the summing up of the law and the prophets.
Matthew 22:39
The second is like it: 'You must love your neighbor as you do yourself.'
Luke 17:5
Then the apostles said to the Lord, "Give us more faith."
Romans 13:8
Stop owing anybody anything, except the obligation to love one another, for whoever practices loving others has perfectly satisfied the law.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
If I could speak the languages of men, of angels too, and have no love, I am only a rattling pan or a clashing cymbal.
2 Corinthians 9:10
He who always supplies the sower with seed and the eater with bread will supply you with seed and multiply it and enlarge the harvest which your deeds of charity yield.
Galatians 5:13-14
For you, brothers, were called to freedom; only you must not let your freedom be an excuse for the gratification of your lower nature, but in love be slaves to one another.
1 Thessalonians 2:8
Because we were yearning for you so tenderly, we were willing, not only to share with you God's good news, but to lay down our very lives too for you, all because you were so dearly loved by us.
1 Thessalonians 4:1
Now, brothers, we ask and beg you, in the face of our union with the Lord Jesus, as you once received from us how you ought to live so as to please God -- as indeed you are living -- to continue to live this life better and better.
James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, in whom there is no variation or changing shadow.
2 Peter 1:7
piety with brotherly affection, brotherly affection with universal love.
2 Peter 3:18
but instead, you must continue to grow in the spiritual strength and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To Him be glory now and forever!