2 Thessalonians 1:5
For an example of the just judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which also you suffer.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
6Seeing it is a just thing with God to repay tribulation to them that trouble you:
Cross References
Job 8:3Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just?
Psalms 33:5He loveth mercy and judgment; the earth is full of the mercy of the Lord.
Psalms 72:2Give to the king thy judgment, O God: and to the king's son thy justice: To judge thy people with justice, and thy poor with judgment.
Psalms 111:7That he may give them the inheritance of the Gentiles: the works of his hands are truth and judgment.
Daniel 4:37Therefore I Nabuchodonosor do now praise, and magnify, and glorify the King of heaven: because all his works are true, and his ways judgments, and them that walk in pride he is able to abase.
Luke 21:36Watch ye, therefore, praying at all times, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are to come, and to stand before the Son of man.
Matthew Henry on 2 Thessalonians 1:2-5
Second Thessalonians This Second Epistle was written soon after the former, and seems to have been designed to prevent a mistake, which might arise from some passages in the former epistle, concerning the second coming of Christ, as if it were near at hand. The apostle in this epistle is careful to prevent any wrong use which some among them might make of those expressions of his that were agreeable to the dialect of the prophets of the Old Testament, and informs them that there were many intermediate counsels yet… Read the whole commentary →