2 Thessalonians 1:6
It is righteous for God to return affliction to those who afflict you,
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Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
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Exodus 23:22If you indeed obey his voice and do everything that I tell you, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.
Psalms 74:22Arise, God; defend your own honor; 1 call to mind how fools insult you all day long. 1
Psalms 94:20Can a throne of destruction be allied with you, 1 one who creates injustice by statute? 1
Zechariah 2:8For after Yahweh of hosts honored me and sent me against the nations that plundered you— 1 for whoever touches you, touches the apple of God's eye!—after Yahweh did this, he said, 1
Revelation 6:10They cried out with a loud voice, “How long, Ruler over all, holy and true, until you judge those who live on the earth, and until you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 15:4Who will not fear you, Lord, 2 and glorify your name? 1 For you alone are holy. 2 All nations will come 2 and worship before you 1 because your righteous deeds have been revealed.”
Matthew Henry on 2 Thessalonians 1:6-11
Prospect of Persecuted Saints. ( a. d. 52.) 5 Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer: 6 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; 7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, 8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: 9 Who… Read the whole commentary →