1 Thessalonians 3:12 Cross References - MLV

¹² And may the Lord increase in you and this increase to abound in love toward one another and toward all men, just-as we also do toward you;

⁴ Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

¹² Therefore, all things, as many as you would wish that men should do for you, so do also to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

³⁹ And the second commandment is similar to it, You will love your neighbor like yourself.

⁵ And the apostles said to the Lord, Add to our faith.

⁸ Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another; for he who loves the other has fulfilled the law.

¹ If I speak with the languages of men and of messengers, but do not have love, I have become like noisy brass or a clanging cymbal. ² And if I have the gift of prophecy and if I know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so-then to remove mountains, but if I do not have love, I am nothing. ³ And if I handout all my possessed things and if I give my body in order that I would be burned, but if I do not have love, it profits me nothing. ⁴ Love has patience. It is kind. Love is not jealous. Love does not brag. It is not arrogant. ⁵ It does not behave improperly. It does not seek its own. It does not irritate. It does not reason evil. ⁶ It does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices together with the truth. ⁷ It is forbearing all things, is believing all things, is hoping for all things, is enduring all things. ⁸ Love never falls short.
But if there are prophesies, they will be done-away; if there are foreign languages, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done-away.
⁹ But we know partially and we prophesy partially; ¹⁰ but whenever the completed thing comes, then what is partially will be done-away. ¹¹ When I was an infant, I was speaking like an infant, I had the mindset like that of an infant, I was reasoning like an infant. Now that I have become a man, I have done-away-with the things of the infant. ¹² For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. I know now partially, but then I will fully know just-as I was also fully known.
¹³ But these three are remaining now: faith, hope, love, and the greater of these is love.

¹⁰ Now he who is supplying seed to the sower and bread for food, may supply and may multiply your seed and may cause the growth of the fruits of your righteousness.

⁶ For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision prevails over anything in Christ Jesus, but faith working through love.

¹³ For brethren, you were called to freedom; only do not use your freedom for a starting-point for the flesh, but serve^*\'b0 one another through love. ¹⁴ For all the law is fulfilled in one word, in this: ‘You will love your neighbor like yourself.’

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

⁹ And I am praying for this: in order that your love may abound still more and more in full knowledge and all comprehension;

⁸ So having kindly-feelings of you, we were delighted to have given to you not only the good-news of God, but also our own souls, because you have become beloved to us.

¹ Therefore furthermore brethren, we request and are encouraging you in the Lord Jesus, just-as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, in order that you might abound even more.

⁹ Now concerning brotherly-love, you have no need for someone to write to you; for you yourselves are taught by God, that you should love one another; ¹⁰ for you are also practicing it toward all the brethren who are in the whole of Macedonia. But brethren, we encourage you, that you abound even more,

¹⁵ See that not anyone repays evil in exchange-for evil to anyone, but always pursue the good, both toward one another and toward all.

³ Brethren, we always ought to thank God concerning you, just-as it is worthy, because your faith is growing substantially, and the love of each one of you all toward one another is increasing;

¹⁷ Every good act of giving, and every complete gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor a shadow of turning.

⁷ and in your godliness, brotherly-love, and in your brotherly-love, love.

¹⁸ But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Glory is to him, both now and toward the final day of this world. Amen.

¹¹ Because this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, in order that we should love one another; ¹² not like Cain who was from the evil one and slaughtered his brother. And he slaughtered him because of what? Because his works were evil but the works of his brother were righteous.
¹³ Do not marvel my brethren, if the world hates you. ¹⁴ We know that we have stepped out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother is abiding in death. ¹⁵ Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer and you know that no murderer has everlasting life abiding in him. ¹⁶ We have known love in this, because that man laid down his life on our behalf and we ought to lay down our lives on behalf of the brethren. ¹⁷ But whoever has the world’s good life and should view his brother having need and then should lock his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him? ¹⁸ My little-children, do not love in word, nor with the tongue, but in work and in truth. ¹⁹ And we know in this that we are from the truth and will persuade our hearts before him;

⁷ Beloved, we should love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born from God and knows God. ⁸ He who does not love, does not know God, because God is love. ⁹ In this, the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent his only begotten Son into the world in order that we might live through him. ¹⁰ In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atonement on behalf of our sins. ¹¹ Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. ¹² No one has seen God at anytime; if we love one another, God is abiding in us and his love is completed in us. ¹³ We know in this that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given to us from his Spirit. ¹⁴ And we have seen and are testifying that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. ¹⁵ Whoever confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him and he in God. ¹⁶ And we have known and have believed the love which God has in us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God and God abides in him.