11Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.
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Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. …
(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-13)In these words we have the earnest prayer of the apostle. He desired to be instrumental in the further benefit of the Thessalonians; and the only way to be so while at a distance was by prayer for them, together with his writing or sending to them. He desired that their faith might be perfected, which he could not be the proper cause or author of; for he pretended not to dominion over their faith,…
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