1st Thessalonians Chapter 3 verse 11 Holy Bible

ASV 1stThessalonians 3:11

Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way unto you:
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BBE 1stThessalonians 3:11

Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus make a way for us to come to you;
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DARBY 1stThessalonians 3:11

But our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you.
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KJV 1stThessalonians 3:11

Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.
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WBT 1stThessalonians 3:11


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WEB 1stThessalonians 3:11

Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you;
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YLT 1stThessalonians 3:11

And our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you,
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 11. - Now God himself and our Father; or, as we would express it according to the English idiom, God himself, our Father, omitting the conjunction. And our Lord Jesus Christ. Some suppose that the three Divine Persons of the sacred Trinity are here expressly named: God the Holy Ghost, and the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ; but the words in the original will not bear this sense: "God himself and our Father" is the same Divine Person. Direct. It is to be observed that the verb "direct" is in the Greek in the singular, thus denoting a unity between God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. At all events, we have an express prayer directed to Christ, thus necessarily implying his Divine nature. Our way unto you.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(11) God himself and our Father.--Better, our God and Father Himself. If we are to find any special person with whom the word "Himself" is intended to enforce a contrast, the contrast is probably not so much with the baffled efforts of St. Paul, as with Satan, who had hindered the journey. But the word is probably added without such specific reference: "May God Himself direct us; for in that case who could hinder?"And our Lord . . .--An important theological passage. From the use of the singular in the verb "direct" (which of course the English cannot express), some divines argue in favour of the Catholic doctrine of "homosion," or substantial unity of the Son with the Father: it must not, however, be too strongly pressed, or it might otherwise lead to the false notion of a personal unity between Them. Nevertheless, we may admit that the prayer (or, rather, wish) implies the equality of the two Persons, and that it would have been inconceivable for a Catholic Christian to have used the verb in the plural. (See 2Thessalonians 2:17.)