1 Thessalonians 3:12

Paul prays the Lord would make their love grow and overflow toward everyone. Increasing love is the mark of a maturing church.

Cross-references · 21

• Phil 1:9And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight,
• Rom 13:8Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
• 1 Jn 4:7–16Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
• Matt 22:39And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
• 2 Th 1:3We are obligated to thank God for you all the time, brothers, as is fitting, because your faith is growing more and more, and your love for one another is increasing.
• 1 Jn 3:11–19This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
• 1 Th 5:15Make sure that no one repays evil for evil. Always pursue what is good for one another and for all people.
• Gal 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
• 1 Th 4:9–10Now about brotherly love, you do not need anyone to write to you, because you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.
• Matt 7:12In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets.
• Gal 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.
• 1 Th 2:8We cared so deeply that we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God, but our own lives as well. That is how beloved you have become to us.
• Gal 5:13–14For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.
• 2 Pet 3:18But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
• 2 Pet 1:7and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.
• 1 Cor 13:1–13If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.
• 1 Th 4:1Finally, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live in a way that is pleasing to God, just as you have received from us. This is how you already live, so you should do so all the more.
• Jas 1:17Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
• Luke 17:5The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!”
• Ps 115:4Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
• 2 Cor 9:10Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your store of seed and will increase the harvest of your righteousness.

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