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Luke 17:5
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The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”
And the Apostles said vnto the Lord, Increase our faith.
And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.
The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!"
The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!"
The apostles said to the Lord, "Give us more faith!"
The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith [our ability to confidently trust in God and in His power]."
The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!"
And the apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!"
The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!"
The emissaries said to the Lord, "Increase our trust."
And the apostles said to the Lord, Give more faith to us.
The apostles said to the Lord, "Give us more faith!"
And the Apostles saide vnto the Lorde, Increase our faith.
And the apostles said to our Lord, Increase our faith.
The apostles said to the Lord, "Make our faith greater."
And the apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!"
And the apostles said to the Lord, Give us more faith.
And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.
And the twelve said to the Lord, Make our faith greater.
The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith."
Then the apostles said to the Lord, "Give us more faith!"
And the apostles said unto our Lord, Increase to us faith.
And the Legates said to our Lord: Increase our faith.
And the Apostles sayde vnto the Lorde: increase our fayth.
And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.
The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith."
And the apostles said to the Lord, Increase our faith. And the Lord said,
And the Apostles said to the Lord, "Give us faith."
And the apostlis seiden to the Lord, Encrese to vs feith.
And the apostles said to the Lord, Increase our faith.
And the apostles said to the Lord, Increase our faith.
The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!"
Matthew 17:19-21; Mark 9:28,29">[xr] And the apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith."
The apostles said to the Lord, "Show us how to increase our faith."
The followers said to the Lord, "Give us more faith."
The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!"
And the apostles said unto the Lord - Bestow on us faith!
And the apostles said to the Lord: Increase our faith.
The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!"
And the apostles sayde vnto the Lorde: increase oure faith.
And the apostles said to the Lord, `Add to us faith;'
And the Apostles sayde vnto ye LORDE: Increace oure faith.
The Apostles having said to the Lord, increase our faith, he answer'd them,
The apostles came up and said to the Master, "Give us more faith."
Then the twelve cowboys said, "Show us how to have more faith!"
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Increase: Mark 9:24, 2 Corinthians 12:8-10, Philippians 4:13, 2 Thessalonians 1:3, Hebrews 12:2, 1 Peter 1:22, 1 Peter 1:23
Reciprocal: Matthew 15:28 - great Acts 3:16 - through 1 Corinthians 12:9 - faith 1 Corinthians 13:2 - and though I have all Colossians 2:12 - the faith 1 Thessalonians 3:12 - the Lord
Cross-References
I will keep my solemn promise to you and give you more descendants than can be counted."
I promise that you will be the father of many nations. That's why I now change your name from Abram to Abraham.
Abraham, your wife's name will now be Sarah instead of Sarai.
But your son Isaac will be born about this time next year, and the promise I am making to you and your family will be for him and his descendants forever.
On that same day Abraham obeyed God by circumcising Ishmael. Abraham was also circumcised, and so were all other men and boys in his household, including his servants and slaves. He was ninety-nine years old at the time, and his son Ishmael was thirteen.
The man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob. You have wrestled with God and with men, and you have won. That's why your name will be Israel."
and sent Nathan the prophet to tell David, "The Lord will call him Jedidiah."
You are the Lord our God, the one who chose Abram— you brought him from Ur in Babylonia and named him Abraham.
I, the Lord God, promise to see that you are killed and that my chosen servants use your names as curse words. But I will give new names to my servants.
The next day, when Pashhur let me go free, I told him that the Lord had said: No longer will I call you Pashhur. Instead, I will call you Afraid-of-Everything.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And the apostles said unto the Lord,.... Either on account of what was now said by Christ concerning offences, and forgiving injuries; being conscious to themselves of their own weakness to withstand temptations; and fearful lest they should be stumbled and offended with what they should meet with; or that they should give offence to others: and being also sensible of what spirits they were of, and of the difficulties of conquering them, and mastering the resentment of their minds, when injured and provoked; and also the necessity of divine assistance, of having fresh supplies of grace, and of having their graces, and particularly faith, strengthened, and drawn into a lively exercise; or on account of their not being able to cast out a devil from one that was possessed,
Matthew 17:19 when words, to the same purpose, were spoken by Christ, as in the following verse; on occasion of one or other of these, though more likely the former, the apostles addressed Christ in this manner,
increase our faith; both the faith of working miracles, and the grace of believing in him: by which, as they express their sense of the weakness, and imperfection of their faith; and their great desire to have it increased, which might be for their comfort, and his glory; so they acknowledge his divine power, and that he is the author and finisher of faith; and that as the beginning, so the increase of it is from him: wherefore faith is not of a man's self, or the produce of man's freewill and power, but is the gift of God; and even where it is, it is not in man to increase it, or add to it, or to draw it forth into exercise; this also is the operation of God. And if the apostles had need to put up such a petition to Christ, much more reason have other men.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Increase our faith - This duty of forgiving offences seemed so difficult to the disciples that they strongly felt the need of an increase of faith. They felt that they were prone themselves to harbor resentments, and that it required an additional increase of true religion to enable them to comply with the requirements of Jesus. We may learn from this:
- That Jesus has âthe powerâ of increasing the faith of his people. Strength comes from him, and especially strength to believe the gospel. Hence, he is called the âAuthor and Finisherâ of our faith, Hebrews 12:2.
- The duty of forgiving offences is one of the most difficult duties of the Christian religion. It is so contrary to our natural feelings; it implies such elevation above the petty feelings of malice and revenge, and is so contrary to the received maxims of the world, which teach us to âcherishâ rather than to forgive the memory of offences, that it is no wonder our Saviour dwells much on this duty, and so strenuously insists on it in order to our having evidence that our hearts have been changed.
Some have thought that this prayer that he would increase their faith refers to the power of working miracles, and especially to the case recorded in Matthew 17:16-20.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Luke 17:5. Increase our faith. — This work of pardoning every offence of every man, and that continually, seemed so difficult, even to the disciples themselves, that they saw, without an extraordinary degree of faith, they should never be able to keep this command. But some think that this and what follows relate to what Matthew has mentioned. Matthew 17:19-20.
