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Love: The Path to Holiness
Commentators emphasize a direct link between the prayer for love in the previous verse and the goal of holiness here. Scholars explain that an overflowing love for others is the primary means by which God establishes our hearts and makes us blameless. As the Expositor's Bible Commentary notes, love turns us away from selfish motives and toward God-honoring conduct.
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1 Thessalonians
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Thessalonians 3:13
18th Century
Theologian
To the end he may establish your hearts. That is, "May the Lord cause you to increase in love (1 Thessalonians 3:12), so that …
AT Robertson
On 1 Thessalonians 3:13
To the end he may stablish (εις το στηριξα). Another example of εις and the articular infinitive of purpose. Same idiom in 3:2. Fr…
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Thessalonians 3:13
19th Century
Bishop
To the end.—A beautiful connection of thought. Perfect and settled sanctification in the eyes of God is the object in view, and th…
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 Thessalonians 3:13
The goal of Paul’s prayer for the Thessalonians is that the Lord will grant them inner strength to be “blameless” in holiness “in the presence of o…
John Calvin
On 1 Thessalonians 3:13
16th Century
Theologian
That he may confirm your hearts. He employs the term hearts here to mean conscience, or the innermost part of the soul. …
John Gill
On 1 Thessalonians 3:13
17th Century
Pastor
To the end he may establish your hearts
Which are very unstable and inconstant in their frames, and in the exercise …
Matthew Henry
On 1 Thessalonians 3:11–13
17th Century
Minister
Prayer is religious worship, and all religious worship is due to God only. Prayer is to be offered to God as our Father. Prayer is not only to be o…