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; and into the patient waiting for Christ Namely, the patient waiting for his second coming, or for his coming to call you hence by death, 1 Thessalonians 1:10. Macknight, however, interprets the verse rather differently, thus: “May the Lord direct your heart to imitate the love which God hath showed to mankind, and the patience which Christ exercised under sufferings.” The patience of Christ has this sense Revelation 1:9: A partaker in the kingdom and patience of Jesus. As the patience of Job means the patience of which Job was so great an example, so the patience of Christ may signify the patience which he exercised in his sufferings.