2 Thessalonians 1:5
which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God; to the end that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
6if so be that it is a righteous thing with God to recompense affliction to them that afflict you,
Cross References
Job 8:3Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
Psalms 33:5He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the lovingkindness of the LORD.
Psalms 72:2He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
Psalms 111:7The works of his hands are truth and judgment; all his precepts are sure.
Daniel 4:37Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
Luke 21:36But watch ye at every season, making supplication, that ye may prevail to escape all these things that shall come to pass, 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 →