2 Thessalonians 1:8

punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

World English Bible

In The King James Version

In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

In Context

7and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,

9who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

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Cross References

Exodus 5:2Pharaoh said, “Who is the LORD, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know the LORD, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”

Deuteronomy 4:30When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to the LORD your God and listen to his voice.

Deuteronomy 32:35Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides, for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”

1 Samuel 2:12Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know the LORD.

Psalms 2:9You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”

Psalms 18:44As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.

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 →

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