Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works.
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:
- BSB And let us consider how to spur one another on to love and good deeds.
- ESV And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and 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,
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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 exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.
- 1 Jn 3:18My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
- Heb 13:1Let brotherly love continue.
- 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.
- Col 3:16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.
- Titus 3:8This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to 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 also do toward you,
- 1 Tim 6:18that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to communicate;
- Gal 6:1Brothers, 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.
- Heb 6:10–11For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
- 2 Cor 8:8I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.
- 1 Cor 10:33even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.
- Heb 13:3Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.
- Gal 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
- Gal 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
- Acts 11:29As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;
- Rom 15:1–2Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
- 2 Th 3:9not because we don’t have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.
- 2 Cor 9:2for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for a year past. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.
- 1 Cor 9:22To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.
- Phil 1:9–11This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;
- Titus 2:4that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
- Rom 11:4But how does God answer him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
- 1 Th 1:3remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
- Rom 12:15Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.
- Ps 41:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.
- 1 Cor 8:12–13Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
- Prov 29:7The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.
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