2 Thessalonians 3:5

May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the endurance of Christ.

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And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.

In Context

4We have confidence in the Lord about you, that you both do and will continue to do the things that we command.

6Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you avoid every brother who lives a lazy life and does not live according to the traditions you received from us.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 30:6Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, so you will love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.

1 Chronicles 29:18Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel—our ancestors—keep this forever in the thoughts of the minds of your people. Direct their hearts toward you.

Psalms 119:5Oh, that I would be firmly established 1 in the observance of your statutes! 1

Psalms 130:5I wait for Yahweh, my soul waits, 1 and in his word I hope. 1

Jeremiah 10:23I know, Yahweh, that the way of a man does not come from himself. No person walking directs his own steps. 1

Lamentations 3:26It is good to wait silently for the salvation of Yahweh. 1

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 →

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