for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;
but we beseech you brethren, that ye increase more and more: Paul is encouraging magnanimity of conduct. God has never been niggardly in the bestowal of His gifts upon us. Neither should we be in using those gifts. There is always room for improvement. We can be more noble; we can love more expansively; we can obey more fully. We will never "arrive." Whatever our present state may be, we can be, know, and do "more and more."