Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
May the Lord greatly increase your love for each other and for all people, just as we love you.
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
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.
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,
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
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Usage: 1267
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Thessalonians 3:12
Images 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 and our Lord Jesus provide a way for us to visit you. 12 May the Lord greatly increase your love for each other and for all people, just as we love you. 13 Then your hearts will be strong, blameless, and holy in the presence of God, who is our Father, when our Lord Jesus appears with all his saints.
Cross References
Philippians 1:9
And this is my prayer, that your love will keep on growing more and more with full knowledge and insight,
1 Thessalonians 4:9-10
Now you do not need anyone to write to you about brotherly love, since you have been taught by God to love each other.
1 Thessalonians 5:15
Make sure that no one pays back evil for evil. Instead, always pursue what is good for each other and for everyone else.
2 Thessalonians 1:3
Brothers, at all times we are obligated to thank God for you. It is right to do this because your faith is growing all the time and the love every one of you has for each other is increasing.
Galatians 5:6
for in union with the Messiah Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision matters. What matters is faith expressed through love.
Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
1 John 3:11-19
This is the message that you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
1 John 4:7-16
Dear friends, let us continuously love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born from God and knows God.
Psalm 115:4
Their idols are silver and gold, crafted by human hands.
Matthew 7:12
Therefore, whatever you want people to do for you, do the same for them, because this summarizes the Law and the Prophets."
Matthew 22:39
The second is exactly like it: "You must love your neighbor as yourself.'
Luke 17:5
Then the apostles told the Lord, "Give us more faith!"
Romans 13:8
Do not owe anyone anything except to love one another. For the one who loves another has fulfilled the Law.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
If I speak in the languages of humans and angels but have no love, I have become a reverberating gong or a clashing cymbal.
2 Corinthians 9:10
Now he who supplies seed to the farmer and bread to eat will also supply you with seed and multiply it and enlarge the harvest that results from your righteousness.
Galatians 5:13-14
For you, brothers, were called to freedom. Only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity to gratify your flesh, but through love make it your habit to serve one another.
1 Thessalonians 2:8
We cared so deeply for you that we were determined to share with you not only the gospel of God but our very lives. That is how dear you were to us.
1 Thessalonians 4:1
Now then, brothers, you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God, as in fact you are doing. We ask and encourage you in the Lord to do so even more.
James 1:17
Every generous act of giving and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father who made the heavenly lights, in whom there is no inconsistency or shifting shadow.
2 Peter 1:7
your godliness with brotherly kindness, and your brotherly kindness with love.
2 Peter 3:18
Instead, continue to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus, the Messiah. Glory belongs to him both now and on that eternal day! Amen.