Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.
In other words, increase. "Though you have a great reputation of having love and all, I would that you would even continue to increase in this love."We had a wonderful time at the family camp this last week, as the Spirit ministered to us from the first epistle of John. And as God's Spirit ministered to us out of this epistle, the message that the Spirit kept bringing us back to and emphasizing was the importance of love towards one another. As John said, "He that saith he love God and hates his brother is a liar; the truth isn't in him. By this we know that we have passed from death unto life because we love the brethren."