And this I pray, that (A)your love may overflow still more and more in (B)real knowledge and all discernment,

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And this is my prayer: that your love(A) may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight,(B)

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12 and may the Lord cause you to increase and (A)overflow in love for one another, and for all people, just as we also do for you;

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12 May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other(A) and for everyone else, just as ours does for you.

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10 for indeed (A)you practice it toward all the brothers and sisters who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers and sisters, to (B)excel even more,

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10 And in fact, you do love all of God’s family throughout Macedonia.(A) Yet we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more,(B)

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We ought always (A)to give thanks to God for you, (B)brothers and sisters, as is only fitting, because your faith is increasing abundantly, and the (C)love of each and every one of you toward one another grows ever greater.

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Thanksgiving and Prayer

We ought always to thank God for you,(A) brothers and sisters,[a] and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Thessalonians 1:3 The Greek word for brothers and sisters (adelphoi) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God’s family; also in 2:1, 13, 15; 3:1, 6, 13.