2 Thessalonians 3:5

Paul's Prayer Request

⁴ We have confidence in the Lord about you, that you are doing and will do what we command. ⁵ May the Lord direct your hearts to God’s love and Christ’s endurance. ⁶ Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from every brother who walks irresponsibly and not according to the tradition received from us.

Incline Your Heart

Jesus Christ

Love of God

O God

Christ

Jesus

Messiah

1 Chronicles 29:18

Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our ancestors, keep this desire forever in the thoughts of the hearts of Your people, and confirm their hearts toward You.

Deuteronomy 30:6

The Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and all your soul so that you will live.

1 Kings 8:58

so that He causes us to be devoted to Him, to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commands, statutes, and ordinances, which He commanded our ancestors.

Psalm 40:1

For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.I waited patiently for the Lord,
and He turned to me and heard my cry for help.

Psalm 119:5

If only my ways were committed
to keeping Your statutes!

Psalm 119:36

Turn my heart to Your decrees
and not to material gain.

Psalm 130:5-6

I wait for Yahweh; I wait
and put my hope in His word.

Proverbs 3:6

think about Him in all your ways,
and He will guide you on the right paths.

Jeremiah 10:23

I know, Lord,
that a man’s way of life is not his own;
no one who walks determines his own steps.

Jeremiah 31:33

“Instead, this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days”—the Lord’s declaration. “I will put My teaching within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be My people.

Lamentations 3:26

It is good to wait quietly
for deliverance from the Lord.

Luke 12:36-37

You must be like people waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once.

Romans 5:5

This hope will not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Romans 8:25

But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with patience.

Romans 8:28

We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God: those who are called according to His purpose.

1 Corinthians 8:3

But if anyone loves God, he is known by Him.

Galatians 5:22

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

Philippians 3:20-21

but our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 1:3

We recall, in the presence of our God and Father, your work of faith, labor of love, and endurance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ,

1 Thessalonians 1:10

and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead—Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath.

1 Thessalonians 3:11

Now may our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you.

2 Timothy 4:8

There is reserved for me in the future the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give me on that day, and not only to me, but to all those who have loved His appearing.

Titus 2:13

while we wait for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 9:28

so also the Messiah, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for Him.

Hebrews 12:2-3

keeping our eyes on Jesus, the source and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that lay before Him endured a cross and despised the shame and has sat down at the right hand of God’s throne.

James 1:16-18

Don’t be deceived, my dearly loved brothers.

James 2:5

Listen, my dear brothers: Didn’t God choose the poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that He has promised to those who love Him?

1 Peter 4:1

Therefore, since Christ suffered in the flesh, equip yourselves also with the same resolve—because the one who suffered in the flesh has finished with sin—

2 Peter 3:12

as you wait for and earnestly desire the coming of the day of God. The heavens will be on fire and be dissolved because of it, and the elements will melt with the heat.

1 John 4:19

We love because He first loved us.

Revelation 3:10-11

Because you have kept My command to endure, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is going to come over the whole world to test those who live on the earth.

Revelation 13:10

If anyone is destined for captivity,
into captivity he goes.
If anyone is to be killed with a sword,
with a sword he will be killed.

This demands the perseverance and faith of the saints.