Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him.
Parallel translations
- KJV Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.
- BSB Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.
- NKJV Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love to him.
- NASB Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.
- NLT So I urge you now to reaffirm your love for him.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- Jude 1:22–23On some have compassion, making a distinction,
- Gal 5:13For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
- Gal 6:10So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.
- Gal 6:1–2Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.
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