Request for Prayer
2 Thessalonians 3:5
In 9 translations
- BSB
- May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance.
- KJV
- And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
- WEB
- May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and into the perseverance of Christ.
- ASV
- And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ.
- LSV
- and the LORD direct your hearts to the love of God, and to the endurance of the Christ.
- YLT
- and the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God, and to the endurance of the Christ.
- DBY
- But the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of the Christ.Elohim
- DRC
- And the Lord direct your hearts, in the charity of God, and the patience of Christ.
- GNV
- And the Lord guide your hearts to the loue of God, and the waiting for of Christ.
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- In STEPBible’s comparison, NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles, Byzantine text, Greek reading followed by the King James Version include τὴν (“the”); Textus Receptus do not include this wording.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- ὁ δὲ κύριος κατευθύναι ὑμῶν τὰς καρδίας εἰς τὴν ἀγάπην τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ εἰς τὴν ὑπομονὴν τοῦ Χριστοῦ.
- RP2018
- Ὁ δὲ κύριος κατευθύναι ὑμῶν τὰς καρδίας εἰς τὴν ἀγάπην τοῦ θεοῦ, καὶ εἰς τὴν ὑπομονὴν τοῦ χριστοῦ.
- TR-Boyd
- Ὁ δὲ Κύριος κατευθύναι ὑμῶν τὰς καρδίας εἰς τὴν ἀγάπην τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ εἰς ὑπομονὴν τοῦ Χριστοῦ.ὑπομονὴν ¦ τὴν ὑπομονὴν SCR
- SCR1894
- ο δε κυριος κατευθυναι υμων τας καρδιας εις την αγαπην του θεου και εις την υπομονην του χριστου
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In the reference works topics that cite this verse
PatienceTitles and Names of the Holy SpiritHeart, TheHoly Spirit, the, Is GodLove to GodMeeknessSecond Coming of Christ, ThePrayerIntercessionLove
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Cross-references most cited first
- Psalms 119:36Turn my heart to Your testimonies and not to covetous gain.
- 1 Chronicles 29:18O LORD, God of our fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, keep this desire forever in the intentions of the hearts of Your people, and direct their hearts toward You.
- Deuteronomy 30:6The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
- 1 John 4:19We love because He first loved us.
- Revelation 3:10–11Because you have kept My command to persevere, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth. I am coming soon. Hold fast to what you…
- Hebrews 12:2–3Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider Him who endured…
- 1 Corinthians 8:3But the one who loves God is known by God.
- Jeremiah 31:33“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
- Proverbs 3:6in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.
- James 1:16–18Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers. Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow. He chose to give us birth through…
- 1 Thessalonians 3:11Now may our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you.
- Romans 8:25But if we hope for what we do not yet see, we wait for it patiently.
- Psalms 119:5Oh, that my ways were committed to keeping Your statutes!
- Hebrews 9:28so also Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many; and He will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await Him.
- 1 Kings 8:58May He incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways and to keep the commandments and statutes and ordinances He commanded our fathers.
- 1 Peter 4:1Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin.
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).