2 Thessalonians 3:5. May the Lord direct, i.e. may Christ, who is faithful (2 Thessalonians 3:3), direct.
Into the love of God. To love God is to have in the heart the root of all activity and endurance, the spring of duty, and the fountain of all virtue.
And into the stedfastness of Christ. The apostle desires they may be enabled to exhibit under trial the same patient endurance which Christ Himself exhibited.
Verse 5. _THE LORD DIRECT YOUR HEARTS INTO THE LOVE OF GOD_] The love of God is the grand motive and principle of obedience; this must occupy your hearts: the heart is irregular in all its workings; G...
AND THE LORD DIRECT YOUR HEARTS INTO THE LOVE OF GOD - So direct your hearts that you may love God. “And into the patient waiting for Christ.” Margin, “patience of Christ.” The marginal reading is in...
III. THANKSGIVING, PRAYER, EXHORTATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS Chapter S 2:13-3:18 _ 1. Thanksgiving and prayer (2 Thessalonians 2:13)_ 2. Prayer for the Word and for deliverance (2 Thessalonians 3:1) 3....
2 THESSALONIANS 3. FINAL COUNSELS AND EXHORTATIONS. The apostle (_a)_ asks for the prayers of the Thessalonian Christians on his own behalf (2 Thessalonians 3:1); (_b_) warns them against dis orderly...
2 THESSALONIANS 3. FINAL COUNSELS AND EXHORTATIONS. The apostle (_a)_ asks for the prayers of the Thessalonian Christians on his own behalf (2 Thessalonians 3:1); (_b_) warns them against dis orderly...
A FINAL WORD (2 Thessalonians 3:1-5)...
Finally, brothers, keep on praying for us, that the word of God may run its race and receive its crown of glory--as it does in your case--and that we may be saved from these wicked and evil men, for t...
DIRECT. Greek. _kateuthuno._ See 1 Thessalonians 3:11. LOVE. App-135. GOD. App-98. PATIENT WAITING. patience, as 2 Thessalonians 1:4. FOR CHRIST. of Christ (App-98. IX)....
_And_(or _But) the Lord direct your hearts_ "The Lord" is still Christ: see note, 2 Thessalonians 3:3. "May He _direct_(or _guide_) you _as Lord_of His people, Shepherd of the sheep" (John 10). The Ap...
Section IV. Words of Comfort and Prayer Ch. 2 Thessalonians 2:13 to 2 Thessalonians 3:5 Passing from the last Section, we breathe a sigh of relief, and gladly join in thanksgiving for those who will...
§ 4. 2 Thessalonians 2:13 TO 2 Thessalonians 3:5. WORDS OF COMFORT AND PRAYER _Solatium post prœdictionem rerum tristium_ (Bengel). Turning from the awful apparition of Antichrist, the writers with a...
ΤΗΝ before ΥΠΟΜΟΝΗΝ in all uncials; omitted in a few minn. 5. Ὁ ΔῈ ΚΎΡΙΟΣ ΚΑΤΕΥΘΎΝΑΙ ὙΜΩ͂Ν ΤᾺΣ ΚΑΡΔΊΑΣ ΕἸΣ ΤῊΝ�. _But may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Chri...
ΚΑΤΕΥΘΎΝΑΙ _praes._ opt. _act. от_ ΚΑΤΕ-ΥΘΎΝΩ (G2727) выпрямлять, направлять (_см._ 1 Thessalonians 3:11)....
DISCOURSE: 2218 ST. PAUL’S BENEVOLENCE 2 Thessalonians 3:5. _The Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ_. IT might well be expected that the fundamental...
INTO THE PATIENT WAITING FOR CHRIST.— The original, 'Υπομονην του Χριστου, may be rendered _the patience of Christ,_ and may signify either _Christian patience,_ or that patience with which Christ him...
TEXT (2 Thessalonians 3:5) 5 AND THE LORD DIRECT YOUR HEARTS INTO THE LOVE OF GOD, AND INTO THE PATIENCE OF CHRIST. Translation and Paraphrase 5. (We desire not merely that you perform those things...
And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ. AND, [ De (G1161)] - 'But.' While I am confident touching you, yet may the Lord direct your hearts. If...
EXHORTATIONS, REBUKES, AND BENEDICTION 2. Unreasonable] almost 'outrageous.' FAITH] better, 'the Faith.'...
PATIENT WAITING FOR] better, 'the patience of.'...
THE *LORD HAS NOT COME YET 2 THE THESSALONIANS _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 3 A REQUEST FOR PRAYER 3:1-2 V1 For the rest, *brothers and *sisters, please pray for us. Ask the *Lord that he will use us...
THE LORD. — See Note on 2 Thessalonians 3:3. The Person of the Blessed Trinity to whom this guidance immediately belongs is the Holy Ghost. So far, the Greek expositors are right who are agreed to con...
CHAPTER 22 MUTUAL INTERCESSION 2 Thessalonians 3:1 (R.V.) THE main part of this letter is now finished. The Apostle has completed his teaching about the Second Advent, and the events which precede...
κατευθύναι, κ. τ. λ. Paul no longer (I., 1 Thessalonians 3:11) entertains the hope of revisiting them soon. “God's love and Christ's patient endurance” (_i.e._, the ὑπομονή which Christ inspires and r...
HELD FIRM AND GUARDED FROM EVIL 2 Thessalonians 2:13; 2 Thessalonians 3:1 This closing section is full of comfort and inspiration. Believers in Christ are the beloved of God; their salvation dates fr...
In conclusion the apostle urged them to pray for him that the preaching of the Word in other places might be with power and victory. He affirmed his confidence in them, and expressed his desire for th...
PAUL'S CONFIDENCE IN THE THESSALONIANS In contrast to some men who could not be trusted, Paul said God is completely trustworthy. Those placing their trust in God will be made firm by Him so that they...
(4) And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ. (4) Thirdly, he diligently and earnestly admonishes them of two things which are given to us only by...
Or, according to the Greek, may the Lord direct and carry your hearts to the love of God, and to the expectation of Jesus Christ....
(1) В¶ 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...
The second epistle takes up another difficulty. It was written in view of another abuse of the truth of the Lord's coming a danger that threatened the saints. As the first epistle was intended to guar...
_UNFATHOMABLE LOVE_ ‘The Lord direct your hearts into the love of God.’ 2 Thessalonians 3:5 Sin is sin, because ‘God is love,’ and the degree of the love is the measure of the sin. He who never kne...
_PATIENT WAITING_ ‘And the Lord direct your hearts … into the patient waiting for Christ.’ 2 Thessalonians 3:5 There is no precipitance with God. St. Paul prays for the Thessalonians, ‘The Lord dir...
As, however, he states here in a summary manner the things that he knew to be most necessary for Christians, let every one make it his endeavor to make proficiency in these two things, in so far as he...
There is nothing very particular in the apostle's exhortations. His great concern was the explanation which we have been considering. He prays that God and the Lord Jesus Himself, who had given them t...
AND THE LORD DIRECT YOUR HEARTS INTO THE LOVE OF GOD,.... By which may be meant either the love with which God is loved. This is the sum and substance of the first and chief commandment in the law, an...
And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ. Ver. 5. _And the Lord direct_] Or rectify your crooked hearts and distorted affections, that stand acros...
_And the Lord_ By his Holy Spirit, whose proper work this is; _direct_ Powerfully incline; _your hearts unto the love of God_ That is, into the exercise of love to God, in return for his love to you;...
AND THE LORD DIRECT YOUR HEARTS INTO THE LOVE OF GOD AND INTO THE PATIENT WAITING FOR CHRIST. The points of doctrine concerning which the apostle had felt uneasiness with regard to the Thessalonian Ch...
CONCLUDING EXHORTATIONS AND GREETING. 2 Thessalonians 3:1 The apostle asks his readers to intercede for him with the faithful Lord:...
As in the first epistle, so the apostle again asks for their prayers: first for the positive blessing of the Word of God which thy proclaimed that it might have free course to go forward and be glorif...
THE PATIENT WAITING FOR CHRIST: Or, the patience of Christ...
“AND THE LORD DIRECT YOUR HEARTS INTO THE LOVE OF GOD, AND INTO THE PATIENCE OF CHRIST” “The Lord direct your hearts into the love of God”: Stott notes, “Paul's prayer is that the Lord will lead the...
1-5 Those who are far apart still may meet together at the throne of grace; and those not able to do or receive any other kindness, may in this way do and receive real and very great kindness. Enemie...
OLBHeb; Here the apostle prays for them again, as he had done a little before, 2 THESSALONIANS 2:17; and as this shows how much they were in his heart, so the frequent mingling of prayers with his ex...
And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ. [From expressions of confidence in God, Paul easily passes to prayer to him, that the Thessalonians may be led to...
2 Thessalonians 3:5 Now G1161 Lord G2962 direct G2720 (G5659) your G5216 hearts G2588 into G1519 love G26
‘And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patient endurance of Christ.' Once again he prays that their lives may be filled with love resulting from God's activity within them,...
DIRECT (κατευθυνα). First aorist active optative of wish for the future as in 2 Thessalonians 2:17; 1 Thessalonians 5:23 from κατευθυνω, old verb, as in 1 Thessalonians 3:11 (ther...
2 Thessalonians 2:13 ; 2 THESSALONIANS 3:5 I. The salvation to which the Thessalonians are described as chosen of God is regarded chiefly in the aspect of a present possession, and it is "in (not thro...
2 Thessalonians 3:1. _Finally, brethren, pray for us,_ «Pray for us,» says the apostle, «pray for myself and the brethren who are with me, pray for all the apostles and preachers of the Word.» «Final...
2 Thessalonians 3:1. _Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you:_ A most important request. What can the ministers of th...
CONTENTS: Paul's encouragements and exhortations to the Thessalonians. CHARACTERS: Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: It is required of those who have professed Christianity, that they live according to the p...
2 Thessalonians 3:1. _Finally, brethren, pray for us._ This request is of constant occurrence. Ephesians 6:18. Paul often ascribes his preservation to the prayers of the saints. He solicits prayer tha...
THAT IS GIVEN BY CHRIST. Endurance and boldness grow out of our sense of God's love, which Christ teaches us. Compare 1 John 4:18....
2 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 2 THESSALONIANS 3:5 THE STEADFASTNESS OF CHRIST. Either Christ’s endurance as a model for Christians or the perseverance Christ gives to believers....
2 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 2 THESSALONIANS 3:1 Transition. Paul requests prayer for his work, reassures them of God’s faithfulness, and closes by praying for them....
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 2 Thessalonians 3:5. DIRECT YOUR HEARTS.—The same word for “direct” again occurs only in 1 Thessalonians 3:11 and Luke 1:79. A similar phrase in the LXX. of...
EXPOSITION CONTENTS.—The apostle now comes to the conclusion of his Epistle. He beseeches the Thessalonians for an interest in their prayers, that the gospel may be rapidly diffused and glorified by n...
Finally, brethren, pray for us (2 Thessalonians 3:1), Now again Paul is calling for prayer for him. I think that maybe sometimes we are guilty of not praying for those in spiritual leadership feeling...
1 Chronicles 29:18; 1 Corinthians 8:3; 1 John 4:19; 1 Kings 8:58;...
Hearts [κ α ρ δ ι α ς]. See on Romans 1:21; Romans 10:10; Ephesians 1:18. Patient waiting for Christ [υ π ο μ ο ν η ν τ ο υ χ ρ ι σ τ ο υ]. Rather patience of Christ. The prayer is that their hearts m...
Now the Lord — The Spirit, whose proper work this is. Direct — Lead you straight forward. Into the patience of Christ — Of which he set you a pattern....
As if he had said, "That we may not be mistaken in this our confidence, we pray that the LORD WILL DIRECT YOUR HEARTS INTO THE LOVE OF GOD, which will constrain you to this obedience." Where note, Th...