And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
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Gill's Exposition
And the Lord make you to increase,.... That is, the Lord the Spirit; so that the object of prayer, addressed by the apostle, is Father, Son, and Spirit, as in Rev 1:4. The Alexandrian copy reads…
Barnes' Notes
And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love - compare notes, 2Co 9:8. The word “Lord” here probably refers to the Lord Jesus, as this is the name by which he is commonly designated in the New…
Adam Clarke
Make you to increase and abound in love - They had already love to each other, so as to unite them in one Christian body; and he prays that they may have an increase and an abundance of it; that they…
In these words we have the earnest prayer of the apostle. He desired to be instrumental in the further benefit of the Thessalonians; and the only way to be so while at a distance was by prayer for…
Cambridge Bible
And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one towards another In the Greek order, But you may the Lord make to increase, &c. "whatever it may please Him to appoint in respect to usand our…
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