2 Thessalonians 3:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 i...
2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(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 b...
2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Thessalonians 3. Final Counsels and Exhortations. The apostle ( a) asks for the prayers of the Thessalonian Christians on his own behalf ( 2 Thessalonians 3:1-5 ); ( b ) warns them against dis o...
2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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).
2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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 fa...
2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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 funda...
2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ. The Lord direct your hearts into the love of God - The love of God is the grand motive and principle of...
2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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...
2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ. And, х De ( G1161 )] - 'But.' While I am confident touching you, yet may the Lord direct you...
2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Exhortations, Rebukes, and Benediction 2. Unreasonable] almost 'outrageous.' Faith ] better, 'the Faith.'
2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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 t...
2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 22 MUTUAL INTERCESSION 2 Thessalonians 3:1-5 (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 p...
2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Held Firm and Guarded from Evil 2 Thessalonians 2:13-17 ; 2 Thessalonians 3:1-5 This closing section is full of comfort and inspiration. Believers in Christ are the beloved of God; their salva...
2 Thessalonians 3:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 t...
2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(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...
2 Thessalonians 3:5 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

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 neve...
2 Thessalonians 3:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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,...
2 Thessalonians 3:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 ac...
2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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;...
2 Thessalonians 3:5 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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 glori...
2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Apostle's Pious Request. A. D. 52. 1 Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the...
2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 h...
2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘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 the...
2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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...
2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Sermon Bible Commentary

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 (...
2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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.» «Fi...
2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Thessalonians 3:1 . Finally, brethren, pray for us. This request is of constant occurrence. Ephesians 6:18-19 . Paul often ascribes his preservation to the prayers of the saints. He solicits pr...
2 Thessalonians 3:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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 glorif...
2 Thessalonians 3:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Concluding Exhortations and Greeting. 2 Thessalonians 3:1-18 The apostle asks his readers to intercede for him with the faithful Lord:
2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Chronicles 29:18 ; 1 Corinthians 8:3 ; 1 John 4:19 ; 1 Kings 8:58 ; 1 Peter 4:1 ; 1 Thessalonians 1:10 ; 1 Thessalonians 1:3 ; 2 Peter 3:12 ; 2 Timothy 4:8 ; Deuteronomy 30:6 ; Galatians...
2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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.

2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

2 Thessalonians 3:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

2 Thessalonians 3:5 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

2 Thessalonians 3:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Thessalonians 3:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Thessalonians 3:5 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Sermon Bible Commentary

2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Thessalonians 3:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

2 Thessalonians 3:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Thessalonians 3:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes