I pray that your love will grow more and more. And let it be based on knowledge and understanding.

我所祷告的，就是要你们的爱心在知识和各样见识上多而又多，

我所祷告的就是：要你们的爱心，在知识和各样见识上，不断增长，

我所祷告的就是：要你们的爱心，在知识和各样见识上，不断增长，

我所祈求的就是：你们的爱心随着属灵知识的增加和辨别力的提高而日益增长，

我所祷告的，是要你们的爱心，在充足的知识和各样的见识上，多而又多，

我是这样祷告的：愿你们的爱心能在真正的知识和一切分辨力上，越来越丰足有余，

我所禱告的，就是要你們的愛心在知識和各樣見識上多而又多，

我所禱告的就是：要你們的愛心，在知識和各樣見識上，不斷增長，

我所禱告的就是：要你們的愛心，在知識和各樣見識上，不斷增長，

我所祈求的就是：你們的愛心隨著屬靈知識的增加和辨別力的提高而日益增長，

我所禱告的，是要你們的愛心，在充足的知識和各樣的見識上，多而又多，

我所禱告的是要你們的愛心充盈而又滿溢，滿有真認識和各樣的審察力，

我是這樣禱告的：願你們的愛心能在真正的知識和一切分辨力上，越來越豐足有餘，

我所祈者、使爾愛於知識通達而愈充溢、

我祈禱、欲爾仁愛智慧、日以滋多、

我祈禱、欲爾仁愛與諸知識智慧、日以加多、

吾所為心禱者無他、惟望爾之仁愛與日俱進、發為真知卓見、

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

And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment,

I pray that your love will overflow more and more, and that you will keep on growing in knowledge and understanding.

And I pray this: that your love will keep on growing in knowledge and every kind of discernment,

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

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;

And I pray this: that your love will keep on growing in knowledge and every kind of discernment,

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and[ in] all judgment;

And I pray this, that your love may abound even more and more in knowledge and every kind of insight

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

May the Lord make your love grow. May it be like a rising flood. May your love for one another increase. May it also increase for everyone else. May it be just like our love for you.

That’s why we have not stopped praying for you. We have been praying for you since the day we heard about you. We keep asking God to fill you with the knowledge of what he wants. We pray he will give you the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives.

So you should try very hard to add goodness to your faith. To goodness, add knowledge.To knowledge, add the ability to control yourselves. To the ability to control yourselves, add the strength to keep going. To the strength to keep going, add godliness.

I pray that what we share by believing will help you understand even more. Then you will completely understand every good thing we share by believing in Christ.

You have started living a new life. Your knowledge of how that life should have the Creator’s likeness is being made new.

You have made yourselves pure by obeying the truth. So you have an honest and true love for each other. So love one another deeply, from your hearts.

You do well in everything else. You do well in faith and in speaking. You do well in knowledge and in complete commitment. And you do well in the love we have helped to start in you. So make sure that you also do well in the grace of giving to others.

We don’t need to write to you about your love for one another. God himself has taught you to love one another.In fact, you do love all God’s family all around Macedonia. Brothers and sisters, we are asking you to love one another more and more.

Brothers and sisters, stop thinking like children. Be like babies as far as evil is concerned. But be grown up in your thinking.

So don’t be foolish. Instead, understand what the Lord wants.

Solid food is for those who are grown up. They have trained themselves to tell the difference between good and evil. That shows they have grown up.

Brothers and sisters, we should always thank God for you. That is only right, because your faith is growing more and more. We also thank God that the love you all have for one another is increasing.

So all of us who are grown up in the faith should see things this way. Maybe you think differently about something. But God will make it clear to you.Only let us live up to what we have already reached.

Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Glory belongs to him both now and forever. Amen.

Jesus told the crowd another story. He said,“ The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed. Someone took the seed and planted it in a field.It is the smallest of all seeds. But when it grows, it is the largest of all garden plants. It becomes a tree. Birds come and rest in its branches.”Jesus told them still another story.“ The kingdom of heaven is like yeast,” he said.“ A woman mixed it into 60 pounds of flour. The yeast worked its way all through the dough.”

The path of those who do right is like the sun in the morning. It shines brighter and brighter until the full light of day.

Now I want to talk about some other matters, brothers and sisters. We taught you how to live in a way that pleases God. In fact, that is how you are living. In the name of the Lord Jesus we ask and beg you to do it more and more.

But godly people will keep doing what is right. Those who have clean hands will grow stronger.