2 Thessalonians 3:5
May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance.
Majority Standard Bible
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
4And we have confidence in the Lord that you are doing and will continue to do what we command you.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 30:6The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
1 Chronicles 29:18O LORD, God of our fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, keep this desire forever in the intentions of the hearts of Your people, and direct their hearts toward You.
Psalms 119:5Oh, that my ways were committed to keeping Your statutes!
Psalms 130:5I wait for the LORD; my soul does wait, and in His word I put my hope.
Jeremiah 10:23I know, O LORD, that a man’s way is not his own; no one who walks directs his own steps.
Lamentations 3:26It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.
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 →