2 Thessalonians 3:5
But the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of the Christ.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
In Context
4But we trust in the Lord as to you, that the things which we enjoin, ye both do and will do.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 30:6And Jehovah thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
1 Chronicles 29:18Jehovah, God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and direct their hearts to thee!
Psalms 119:5Oh that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
Psalms 130:5I wait for Jehovah; my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.
Jeremiah 10:23I know, Jehovah, that the way of man is not his own; it is not in a man that walketh to direct his steps.
Lamentations 3:26It is good that one should both wait, and that in silence, for the salvation of Jehovah.
Matthew Henry on 2 Thessalonians 3:2-6
The Apostle's Pious Request. ( a. d. 52.) 1 Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you: 2 And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith. 3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil. 4 And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you. 5 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the… Read the whole commentary →