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17 And may the Lord our God show us his approval
    and make our efforts successful.
    Yes, make our efforts successful!

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Commit your actions to the Lord,
    and your plans will succeed.

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It’s not important who does the planting, or who does the watering. What’s important is that God makes the seed grow.

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16 Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal comfort and a wonderful hope, 17 comfort you and strengthen you in every good thing you do and say.

Paul’s Request for Prayer

Finally, dear brothers and sisters,[a] we ask you to pray for us. Pray that the Lord’s message will spread rapidly and be honored wherever it goes, just as when it came to you.

Footnotes

  1. 3:1 Greek brothers; also in 3:6, 13.

12 Lord, you will grant us peace;
    all we have accomplished is really from you.

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25 Please, Lord, please save us.
    Please, Lord, please give us success.

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28 You will succeed in whatever you choose to do,
    and light will shine on the road ahead of you.

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Turn us again to yourself, O God.
    Make your face shine down upon us.
    Only then will we be saved.

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28 Summon your might, O God.[a]
    Display your power, O God, as you have in the past.

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Footnotes

  1. 68:28 As in some Hebrew manuscripts and Greek and Syriac versions; most Hebrew manuscripts read Your God has commanded your strength.

Turn us again to yourself, O God of Heaven’s Armies.
    Make your face shine down upon us.
    Only then will we be saved.

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18 So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord—who is the Spirit—makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image.

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When you go to war,
    your people will serve you willingly.
You are arrayed in holy garments,
    and your strength will be renewed each day like the morning dew.

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From Mount Zion, the perfection of beauty,
    God shines in glorious radiance.

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The one thing I ask of the Lord
    the thing I seek most—
is to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life,
    delighting in the Lord’s perfections
    and meditating in his Temple.

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Dear friends, we are already God’s children, but he has not yet shown us what we will be like when Christ appears. But we do know that we will be like him, for we will see him as he really is.

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