And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ. [From expressions of confidence in God, Paul easily passes to prayer to him, that the Thessalonians may be led to love him, and to exercise in their trials and persecutions the patience which Christ exhibited under unparalleled suffering. To love God, together with the brotherly love which they already possessed (1 Thessalonians 4:9-10), constituted a fulfillment of the law (Matthew 22:37-40; Romans 13:10), and hence led to acceptable obedience.]

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