2 Thessalonians 3:5 Cross References - Thomson

⁵ And may the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the perseverance of the Christ.

⁶ And the Lord will purify thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, that thou mayst live.

⁵⁸ May he incline our hearts to him to walk in all his ways, and to keep all his commandments and his statutes which he gave in charge to our fathers!

¹⁸ Lord, the God of Abraham and Isaak and Israel our fathers, keep these things forever in the thoughts of the hearts of thy people and direct their hearts to thee,

¹ For the conclusion. A Psalm by David. I Waited patiently for the Lord and he attended to me and heard my prayer:

⁵ O that my ways may be directed, that I may keep thy rules of rectitude.

³⁶ Incline my heart to thy testimonies and not to covetousness.

⁵ I have waited for thee, Lord: my soul hath waited for thy word; ⁶ my soul hath hoped for the Lord, from the morning watch till night.

⁶ Shew it in all thy ways, that it may make thy paths straight.

²³ [p] I know, Lord, that the way of man is not in himself, nor can a man who travelleth ensure to himself a prosperous journey.

³³ For this, saith the Lord, is my covenant which I will make with the house of Israel; after those days, saith the Lord, I will adapt my laws to their understanding and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God and they shall be my people.

²⁶ there is good; let it therefore wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.

³⁶ and be like men who are waiting their master's return from a wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may instantly open for him. ³⁷ Happy those servants, whom the master, when he cometh, shall find watching. Verily I say to you, he will gird himself, and having placed them at table, will come and wait upon them.

⁵ and this hope will not shame us, because the love of God is diffused through our hearts by a Holy Spirit, which is given us.

²⁸ And we know that all things are working together for good to them who love God"to them who according to a previous purpose are now actually called.

³ But if any one loveth God by him he is acknowledged.]

²² But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness,

²⁰ But we are citizens of heaven, from which we earnestly expect a saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, ²¹ who will transform the body of this our humble state, that it may be made conformable to his glorious body, according to the energy of his power to subject all to himself.

³ remembering incessantly the work of your belief, and the labour of your love, and the perseverance of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of our God and Father;

¹⁰ and to wait for his son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, namely Jesus, who delivered! us from the wrath to come

¹¹ now may he himself, our God and father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you!

⁸ As to what remaineth, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me on that day, not only to me, but to all who have loved his glorious appearance.

¹³ waiting for the blessed hope and the bright display of the glory of the great God, and saviour of us Jesus Christ,

²⁸ so also the Christ, being once offered up to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without a sin offering, for the salvation of them who wait for him.

² looking forward to Jesus, the leader and perfecter of this faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured a cross, despising shame, and hath taken a seat at the right hand of the throne of God. ³ Consider him who bore such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you may not grow weary, nor faint in your minds.

¹⁶ Be not led astray, my beloved brethren: ¹⁷ Every good donation, and every perfect gift, is from above, and cometh down from the father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow of turning. 18 Of his own will he hath impregnated us with a word of truth, that we may be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

⁵ Hearken, my beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he hath promised to them who love him?

¹ Christ therefore having suffered in flesh for us, arm ye yourselves with this reflection, that he who hath suffered in flesh hath been stopped from sin,

¹² expecting, and eagerly desiring, the coming of the day of God, in which the heavens, all on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with intense heat,

¹⁹ As for us we love him because he first loved us.

¹⁰ Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I will keep thee from the hour of trial which is coming soon on the whole world, to try the inhabitants of the earth. ¹¹ Behold I am coming quickly. Hold fast what thou hast, that none may take thy crown.

¹⁰ If any one gathereth [prisoners] for captivity; into captivity he goeth; if any one shall kill with the sword; with the sword he ought to be slain. Here is the perseverance and the faith of the saints.