2 Thessalonians 3:5

Paul prays that the Lord would direct their hearts into God's love and the steadfast endurance of Christ. Love and endurance are gifts God must work in the heart.

Cross-references · 32

• Ps 119:36Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.
• 1 Chr 29:18Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this desire forever in the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart for you;
• Deut 30:6Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.
• 1 Jn 4:19We love him, because he first loved us.
• Rev 3:10–11Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
• 1 Cor 8:3But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.
• Heb 12:2–3looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
• Jer 31:33“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
• Prov 3:6In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
• Jas 1:16–18Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.
• 1 Th 3:11Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you;
• Heb 9:28so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.
• 1 Kgs 8:58that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.
• Ps 119:5Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes!
• Rom 8:25But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.
• 2 Tim 4:8From now on, there is stored up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.
• Gal 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
• Ps 40:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.
• Rom 5:5and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
• Rom 8:28We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
• 1 Pet 4:1Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;
• Titus 2:13looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ;
• 1 Th 1:3remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
• Phil 3:20–21For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;
• Jas 2:5Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
• Lam 3:26It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
• Rev 13:10If anyone is to go into captivity, he will go into captivity. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, he must be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.
• Jer 10:23Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
• 1 Th 1:10and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead — Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.
• Ps 130:5–6I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.
• Luke 12:36–37Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns from the marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him.
• 2 Pet 3:12looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, which will cause the burning heavens to be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?

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