Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
15 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “abound” →
A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.
Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things , may abound to every good work:
And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.
But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.
And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men , even as we do toward you:
Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
