5And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
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Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.
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:
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.
We love him, because he first loved us.
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. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)In these words observe, I. The apostle desires the prayers of his friends: Finally, brethren, pray for us , 2 Thess. 3:1. He always remembered them in his prayers, and would not have them forget him and his fellow-labourers, but bear them on their hearts at the throne of grace. Note, 1. This is one way by which the communion of saints is kept us, not only by their praying together, or with one ano…
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