2 Thessalonians 3:5

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for 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 LORD God of Abraham, 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 To the chief Musician{H8764)}, A Psalm of David. I waited{H8765)} patiently{H8763)} for the LORD; and he inclined{H8799)} unto me, and heard{H8799)} my cry.
Ps 119:5 : 5 O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
Ps 119:36 : 36 Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.
Ps 130:5-6 : 5 I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. 6 My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
Prov 3:6 : 6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Jer 10:23 : 23 O LORD, 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 shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Lam 3:26 : 26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
Luke 12:36-37 : 36 And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. 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 to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.
Rom 5:5 : 5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
Rom 8:25 : 25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Rom 8:28 : 28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
1 Cor 8:3 : 3 But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
Gal 5:22 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Phil 3:20-21 : 20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: 21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
1 Thess 1:3 : 3 Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
1 Thess 1:10 : 10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
1 Thess 3:11 : 11 Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.
2 Tim 4:8 : 8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
Titus 2:13 : 13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
Heb 9:28 : 28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
Heb 12:2-3 : 2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
Jas 1:16-18 : 16 Do not err, my beloved brethren. 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. 18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
Jas 2:5 : 5 Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
1 Pet 4:1 : 1 Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
2 Pet 3:12 : 12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
1 John 4:19 : 19 We love him, because he first loved us.
Rev 3:10-11 : 10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. 11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
Rev 13:10 : 10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
Deut 30:6 : 6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine 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 judgments, which he commanded our fathers.

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