2 THESSALONIANS 3:5 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.”
May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ — the prayer-wish invokes Christ as the guide (kateuthumeo, to direct) of hearts toward divine love (agapē tou theou) and Christ-like endurance (hypomenē Christou). The interior orientation is toward God and toward Christ's pattern.
Church Fathers on 2 Thessalonians 3:5
Neither ought we, having committed everything to the prayers of the Saints, to be idle ourselves, and run into wickedness, and to lay hold of nothing; nor again when working good to despise that succor. For great indeed are the things which prayer for us can effect, but it is when we ourselves also work. For this reason Paul also, praying for them, and again giving them assurance from the promise, says, “But the Lord is faithful, who shall establish you, and guard you from…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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