Charles Spurgeon Commentary Hebrews 10:24

"and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works;" — Hebrews 10:24 (ASV)

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

The Greek is, to stir each other up to a paroxysm of love. There is no fear that we will ever go too far in our love to God; though it should cast us into a state of blessed excitement, yet it would be healthy for us to live so and to work so.

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

I am afraid there are some who consider one another to provoke in quite a different spirit from this, who watch to find out a tender spot where a wound will be most felt. They observe the weakness of a brother's constitution, and then play upon it, or make jests about it.

All this is evil, so let us avoid it. Let us all seek out the good points of our brothers and consider them, so that we may afterwards be the means of guiding them to those particular good works for which they are best suited. The command is to Provoke unto love and to good works.

I do not know how we can do that better than by being very loving and very full of good works ourselves, for then others will be likely to say, "If these people are helped by God's grace to love like this, and to labour like this, why should not we do the same?" A good example is often better than a very proper precept.