⁹ And this I pray, that ^(A)your love may abound still more and more in ^(B)real knowledge and all discernment,

Sanctification and Love

4 ^(A)Finally then, ^(B)brethren, we request and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us instruction as to how you ought to ^[a](C)walk and ^(D)please God (just as you actually do ^[b]walk), that you ^(E)excel still more.

¹⁰ for indeed ^(A)you do practice it toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, to ^(B)excel still more,

³ We ought always ^(A)to give thanks to God for you, ^(B)brethren, as is only fitting, because your faith is greatly enlarged, and the ^(C)love of each one of you toward one another grows ever greater;