And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
Parallel translations
- WEB Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,
- BSB And let us consider how to spur one another on to love and good deeds.
- 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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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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- 1 Th 5:11Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
- 1 Jn 3:18My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
- Heb 13:1Let brotherly love continue.
- Gal 5:13For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
- Col 3:16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
- Titus 3:8This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.
- 1 Th 3:12–13And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
- 1 Tim 6:18That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;
- Gal 6:1Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
- Heb 6:10–11For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
- 2 Cor 8:8I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
- 1 Cor 10:33Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
- Heb 13:3Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
- Gal 5:6For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
- Gal 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
- Acts 11:29Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea:
- Rom 15:1–2We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
- 2 Th 3:9Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
- 2 Cor 9:2For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.
- 1 Cor 9:22To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
- Phil 1:9–11And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
- Titus 2:4That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
- Rom 11:4But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
- 1 Th 1:3Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
- Rom 12:15Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
- Ps 41:1Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.
- 1 Cor 8:12–13But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
- Prov 29:7The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.
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