that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.
      2. The exhortation itself is to increase more and more in this great grace and duty of brotherly love, 1 Thessalonians 4:10; 1 Thessalonians 4:10. Though these Thessalonians had in some sense no need of an exhortation to brotherly love, as if it were wholly wanting, yet they must be exhorted to pray for more, and labour for more. There are none on this side heaven who love in perfection. Those who are eminent in this or any other grace have need of increase therein as well as of perseverance unto the end.