"And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ. {patient...: or, patience…" — 2 Thessalonians 3:5

2 Thessalonians 3:5 · KJV

“And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ. {patient...: or, patience of Christ}”

— 2 Thessalonians 3:5

Verse 4

And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.

Verse 6

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.

2 Thessalonians 3 — Context

But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep {you} from evil.

And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.

And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ. {patient...: or, patience of Christ}

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.

For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;

Cross References

Psalms 119:36

Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.

1 Chronicles 29:18

O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee: {prepare: or, stablish}

Deuteronomy 30:6

And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

1 John 4:19

We love him, because he first loved us.

1 Corinthians 8:3

But if any man love God, the same is known of him.

Hebrews 12:2-3

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of {our} faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. {author: or, beginner}

Revelation 3:10-11

Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

Jeremiah 31:33

But this {shall be} the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.