2nd Thessalonians Chapter 3 verse 3 Holy Bible
But the Lord is faithful, who shall establish you, and guard you from the evil `one'.
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But the Lord is true, who will give you strength and keep you safe from evil.
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But the Lord is faithful, who shall establish you and keep [you] from evil.
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But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.
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But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you, and guard you from the evil one.
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and stedfast is the Lord, who shall establish you, and shall guard `you' from the evil;
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2nd Thessalonians 3 : 3 Bible Verse Songs
- Too Faithful by Moses Bliss
- The faithful God by Ada Ehi
- Faithfully by Chris August
- Evidence by Josh Baldwin
- Faithful One by Jonathan Traylor + Mack Brock
- Protector by Kim Walker
- Birds by Anna Golden
- Trenches by Tauren Wells
- Faithful Wounds by Cory Asbury
- Faithful by Victory Worship
- Loyal (OMG) by VOUS Worship
- Faithful (Paradoxology) by Elevation Worship
- Faithful (Paradoxology) by Elevation Worship
- Faithful (Paradoxology) by Elevation Worship
- Faithful (Paradoxology) by Elevation Worship
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - But; in contrast with the men just mentioned. The Lord is faithful; as if the apostle had said," Man may be faithless, but the Lord is faithful" (see Romans 3:4). "In contrast to the infidelity of man, he praises the fidelity of God" (Bengel). By the Lord, Christ is meant. In the former Epistle, faithfulness is attributed to God (1 Thessalonians 5:24), here to Christ. This faithfulness of Christ consisted in watching over his Church, and in effecting its diffusion in spite of all the opposition of these unreasonable and wicked men. Who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil; or, the evil. The word "evil" may be either masculine or neuter: if masculine, then it denotes "the evil one;" if neuter, then "evil" in general. There is nothing in the word itself to determine its meaning; this must be learned from the context. Most commentators (Calvin, Bengel, Olshausen, Hofmann, Macknight, Ellicott, Eadie, and Bishop Alexander) suppose that the evil one is meant; and it is so rendered in the R.V.: "Guard you from the evil one." But it is better to take the word abstractly "evil" in general, whether evil persons or evil things; as a contrast to "every good word and work" (2 Thessalonians 2:17). So Alford, Lunemann, De Wette, Jowett, Lillie. There is the same difference of opinion with regard to the words in the Lord's Prayer: "Deliver us from evil;" or "from the evil one" (R.V.). Here, also, notwithstanding the high authorities on the opposite side, we consider that our Lord's words are not limited to the evil one, but are to be taken generally - "evil" in the widest sense, as being much more forcible.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) But the Lord is faithful.--It must not be thought from this that the word "faith" in the previous verse meant "fidelity." St. Paul, after his favourite manner, is playing upon two meanings of the word: "But whether men have faith or not, the Lord is faithful." There is the same play of words in Romans 3:3. "The Lord" seems here to be used, as was said on 1Thessalonians 3:12, without distinct reference to one Person of the Holy Trinity rather than another. This characteristic of God is named because God stands pledged to all who believe in Him.Who shall stablish you.--How soon St. Paul reverts from his own needs to theirs! He does not continue, as we should expect, with "who will preserve us"Keep you from evil.--Rather (probably), from the Evil One, as in the Lord's Prayer. Possibly, the word is used not without a reference to the word rendered "wicked" in 2Thessalonians 3:2, with which in the Greek it is identical.
