2 Thessalonians 3:2

2 Thessalonians 3:2

Pray for Us

1 Finally, brethren, ^apray for us, that the word of the Lord may run swiftly and be glorified, just as it is with you,

2 and ^athat we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men; ^bfor not all have faith.

3 But ^athe Lord is faithful, who will establish you and ^bguard you from the evil one.

4 And ^awe have confidence in the Lord concerning you, both that you do and will do the things we command you.

5 Now may ^athe Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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that we . . . be delivered from unreasonable . . . men—literally, men out of place, inept, unseemly: out of the way bad: more than ordinarily bad. An undesigned coincidence with Acts 18:5-9. Paul was now at Corinth, where the JEWS "opposed themselves" to his preaching: in answer to his prayers and those of his converts at Thessalonica and elsewhere, "the Lord, in vision," assured him of exemption from "the hurt," and of success in bringing in "much people." On the unreasonable, out-of-the way perversity of the Jews, as known to the Thessalonians, see I Thessalonians 2:15-16.

have not faith—or as Greek, "the faith" of the Christian: the only antidote to what is "unreasonable and wicked." The Thessalonians, from their ready acceptance of the Gospel (I Thessalonians 1:5-6), might think "all" would similarly receive it; but the Jews were far from having such a readiness to believe the truth.

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