What does 2 Thessalonians 3:3 mean?

But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.

2 Thessalonians 3:3, King James Version

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The verse in its chapter

2 Thessalonians 3:1-5

1 Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you:
2 And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith.
3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.
4 And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.
5 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.

Study note

Tyndale Open Study Notes (CC BY-SA 4.0).

3:3 The sufferings the Thessalonians faced were caused by the evil one (or by evil; see 2:9; cp. 1:4-6; 1 Thes 1:6; 2:14).

Cross references

Other Bible passages linked to this one, most cited first.

2 Timothy 4:18
And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
1 Thessalonians 5:24
Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.
1 Corinthians 10:13
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Psalms 121:7
The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
1 Corinthians 1:9
God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
John 17:15
I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.

About the book of 2 Thessalonians

Author: Paul, with Silvanus and Timothy (2 Thessalonians 1:1)
When: c. AD 50 to 51
Period: Igreja primitiva, c. 30 a 70 d.C. (in Portuguese)

Authorship: the book itself or Christian tradition. Approximate dates, as in Carson and Moo, An Introduction to the New Testament, and Longman and Dillard, An Introduction to the Old Testament.