And let us consider how to spur one another on to love and good deeds.
Parallel translations
- WEB Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,
- KJV And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
- NKJV And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works,
- NASB and let’s consider how to encourage one another in love and good deeds,
- NLT Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works.
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Quick answer
Let us thoughtfully spur one another toward love and good deeds. Christian perseverance is a community effort.
Overview
The third exhortation turns outward: consider how to 'provoke' (stir up) one another to love and good works. Faith is not merely individual; believers are responsible to encourage each other actively. This mutual stimulation builds a community marked by love and faithful obedience.
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Cross-references · 28
- 1 Th 5:11Therefore encourage and build one another up, just as you are already doing.
- 1 Jn 3:18Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.
- Heb 13:1Continue in brotherly love.
- Gal 5:13For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.
- Col 3:16Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.
- Titus 3:8This saying is trustworthy. And I want you to emphasize these things, so that those who have believed God will take care to devote themselves to good deeds. These things are excellent and profitable for the people.
- 1 Th 3:12–13And may the Lord cause you to increase and overflow with love for one another and for everyone else, just as our love for you overflows,
- 1 Tim 6:18Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, and to be generous and ready to share,
- Gal 6:1Brothers, if someone is caught in a trespass, you who are spiritual should restore him with a spirit of gentleness. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted.
- Heb 6:10–11For God is not unjust. He will not forget your work and the love you have shown for His name as you have ministered to the saints and continue to do so.
- 2 Cor 8:8I am not making a demand, but I am testing the sincerity of your love in comparison to the earnestness of others.
- 1 Cor 10:33as I also try to please everyone in all I do. For I am not seeking my own good, but the good of many, that they may be saved.
- Heb 13:3Remember those in prison as if you were bound with them, and those who are mistreated as if you were suffering with them.
- Gal 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.
- Gal 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
- Acts 11:29So the disciples, each according to his ability, decided to send relief to the brothers living in Judea.
- Rom 15:1–2We who are strong ought to bear with the shortcomings of the weak and not to please ourselves.
- 2 Th 3:9Not that we lack this right, but we wanted to offer ourselves as an example for you to imitate.
- 2 Cor 9:2For I know your eagerness to help, and I have been boasting to the Macedonians that since last year you in Achaia were prepared to give. And your zeal has stirred most of them to do likewise.
- 1 Cor 9:22To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.
- Phil 1:9–11And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight,
- Titus 2:4In this way they can train the young women to love their husbands and children,
- Rom 11:4And what was the divine reply to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
- 1 Th 1:3and continually recalling before our God and Father your work of faith, your labor of love, and your enduring hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Rom 12:15Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.
- Ps 41:1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Blessed is the one who cares for the poor; the LORD will deliver him in the day of trouble.
- 1 Cor 8:12–13By sinning against your brothers in this way and wounding their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
- Prov 29:7The righteous consider the cause of the poor, but the wicked have no regard for such concerns.
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