2 Thessalonians 3:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὁ δὲ Κύριος κατευθύναι ὑμῶν τὰς καρδίας εἰς τὴν ἀγάπην τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ εἰς τὴν ὑπομονὴν τοῦ Χριστοῦ.

Transliteration

The de Kyrios kateuthynai your tas kardias eis tēn agapēn tou Theou, kai eis tēn hypomonēn tou Christou.

Grammar Details

*de*: postpositive conjunction - and/but/now
*Kyrios*: nominative, masculine, singular - Lord
*kateuthynai*: aorist optative, active, 3rd singular - may direct/guide
*kardias*: accusative, feminine, plural - hearts
*eis*: preposition + accusative - into/to/toward
*tēn agapēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - the love
*tou Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God
*kai*: conjunction - and
*tēn hypomonēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - the endurance/steadfastness/patience
*tou Christou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Christ

Word Meanings

*kateuthynai*: may direct/may guide/may lead straight
*agapēn*: love/devotion
*hypomonēn*: endurance/steadfastness/patience/perseverance
*tou Theou*: of God (objective genitive - love for God) or (subjective genitive - God's love)
*tou Christou*: of Christ (objective genitive - endurance for Christ) or (subjective genitive - Christ's endurance)

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Referenced Verses

1 Chr 29:18 : 18 O Jehovah, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee;
Ps 40:1 : 1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for Jehovah; And he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
Ps 119:5 : 5 Oh that my ways were established To observe thy statutes!
Ps 119:36 : 36 Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, And not to covetousness.
Ps 130:5-6 : 5 I wait for Jehovah, my soul doth wait, And in his word do I hope. 6 My soul [waiteth] for the Lord More than watchmen [wait] for the morning; [Yea, more than] watchmen for the morning.
Prov 3:6 : 6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, And he will direct thy paths.
Jer 10:23 : 23 O Jehovah, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
Jer 31:33 : 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith Jehovah: 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:
Lam 3:26 : 26 It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Jehovah.
Luke 12:36-37 : 36 and be ye yourselves like unto men looking for their lord, when he shall return from the marriage feast; that, when he cometh and knocketh, they may straightway open unto him. 37 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them sit down to meat, and shall come and serve them.
Rom 5:5 : 5 and hope putteth not to shame; because the love of God hath been shed abroad in our hearts through the Holy Spirit which was given unto us.
Rom 8:25 : 25 But if we hope for that which we see not, [then] do we with patience wait for it.
Rom 8:28 : 28 And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, [even] to them that are called according to [his] purpose.
1 Cor 8:3 : 3 but if any man loveth God, the same is known by him.
Gal 5:22 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Phil 3:20-21 : 20 For our citizenship is in heaven; {G1537} whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: 21 who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, [that] [it] [may be] conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working whereby he is able even to subject all things unto himself.
1 Thess 1:3 : 3 remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;
1 Thess 1:10 : 10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, [even] Jesus, who delivereth us from the wrath to come.
1 Thess 3:11 : 11 Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, {G5547} direct our way unto you:
2 Tim 4:8 : 8 henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give to me at that day; and not to me only, but also to all them that have loved his appearing.
Titus 2:13 : 13 looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
Heb 9:28 : 28 so Christ also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, shall appear {G1537} a second time, apart from sin, to them that wait for him, unto salvation.
Heb 12:2-3 : 2 looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter of [our] faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 For consider him that hath endured such gainsaying of sinners against himself, that ye wax not weary, fainting in your souls.
Jas 1:16-18 : 16 Be not deceived, my beloved brethren. 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning. 18 Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
Jas 2:5 : 5 Hearken, my beloved brethren; did not God choose them that are poor as to the world [to be] rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to them that love him?
1 Pet 4:1 : 1 Forasmuch then as Christ suffered {G5228} {G2257} in the flesh, arm ye yourselves also with the same mind; for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
2 Pet 3:12 : 12 looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
1 John 4:19 : 19 We love, {G25} {G846} because he first loved us.
Rev 3:10-11 : 10 Because thou didst keep the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of trial, that [hour] which is to come upon the whole world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. 11 {G2400} I come quickly: hold fast that which thou hast, that no one take thy crown.
Rev 13:10 : 10 If any man [is] for captivity, into captivity he goeth: if any man shall kill with the sword, with the sword must he be killed. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
Deut 30:6 : 6 And Jehovah thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
1 Kgs 8:58 : 58 that he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.

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