2 Thessalonians 3:5

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

Young's Literal 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

4and we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that the things that we command you ye both do and will do;

6And we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother disorderly walking, and not after the deliverance that ye received from us,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 30:6'And Jehovah thy God hath circumcised thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, for the sake of thy life;

1 Chronicles 29:18'O Jehovah, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep this to the age for the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of Thy people, and prepare their heart unto Thee;

Psalms 119:5O that my ways were prepared to keep Thy statutes,

Psalms 130:5I hoped [for] Jehovah — hoped hath my soul, And for His word I have waited.

Jeremiah 10:23I have known, O Jehovah, that not of man [is] his way, Not of man the going and establishing of his step.

Lamentations 3:26Good! when one doth stay and stand still 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 →

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