2 Thessalonians 3:5

Paul's Prayer Request

⁴ And we have confidence in the Lord about you, that you are both doing and you will do [the things] that we are commanding. ⁵ Now may the Lord direct your hearts toward the love of God and toward the patient endurance of Christ. ⁶ But we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, [that] you keep away from every brother who lives irresponsibly and not according to the tradition that they received from us.

Incline Your Heart

Jesus Christ

Love of God

O God

Christ

Jesus

Messiah

1 Chronicles 29:18

O Yahweh, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our ancestors, keep this forever as a plan [and] thoughts of the heart of your people, and establish their heart toward you.

Deuteronomy 30:6

"And Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your inner self {so that you may live}.

1 Kings 8:58

to incline our hearts toward him, to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his judgments which he commanded our ancestors.

Psalm 40:1

I waited patiently for Yahweh, And he inclined to me and heard my cry for help.

Psalm 119:5

Oh that my ways were steadfast, to keep your statutes!

Psalm 119:36

Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to [dishonest] gain.

Psalm 130:5-6

I await Yahweh; my soul awaits, and I wait for his word.

Proverbs 3:6

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will straighten your paths.

Jeremiah 10:23

I know, Yahweh, that to the human [is] not his [own] way, nor to a person [is the] walking and the directing of his [own] step.

Jeremiah 31:33

"But this [is] the covenant that I will {make} with the house of Israel after those days," {declares} Yahweh: "I will put my law in their inward parts and on their hearts I will write it, and I will be to them God, and they themselves will be to me people.

Lamentations 3:26

[It is] good to wait in silence for the salvation of Yahweh.

Luke 12:36-37

And you, [be] like people who are waiting for their master when he returns from the wedding feast, so that [when he] comes back and knocks, they can open [the door] for him immediately.

Romans 5:5

and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God 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 await [it] eagerly with patient endurance.

Romans 8:28

And we know that all [things] work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to [his] purpose,

1 Corinthians 8:3

But if anyone loves God, this one is known by him.

Galatians 5:22

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

Philippians 3:20-21

For our commonwealth exists in heaven, from which also we eagerly await a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

1 Thessalonians 1:3

[because we] remember your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father,

1 Thessalonians 1:10

and to await his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus, the one who delivers 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

Finally, the crown of righteousness is reserved for me, that the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me, but also to all who have loved his appearing.

Titus 2:13

looking forward to the blessed hope and the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,

Hebrews 9:28

thus also Christ, having been offered once in order to bear the sins of many, will appear for the second time without reference to sin to those who eagerly await him for salvation.

Hebrews 12:2-3

fixing our eyes on Jesus, the originator and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

James 1:16-18

Do not be deceived, my dear brothers.

James 2:5

Listen, my dear brothers! Did not God choose the poor of the 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, [because] Christ suffered in the flesh, you also equip yourselves with the same way of thinking, because the one who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

2 Peter 3:12

[while] waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be destroyed [by] being burned up and the celestial bodies will melt [as they] are consumed by heat!

1 John 4:19

We love, because he first loved us.

Revelation 3:10-11

Because you have kept the word of my patient endurance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come upon the whole inhabited world, to put to the test those who live on the earth.

Revelation 13:10

If anyone [is going] into captivity, into captivity he goes. If anyone [is] to be killed by the sword, by the sword he [is] to be killed. Here is the patient endurance and the faith of the saints.