NET Bible
"For it is right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,"
— 2 Thessalonians 1:6, NET Bible
“Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;”
“if so be that it is a righteous thing with God to recompense affliction to them that afflict you, ”
“Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,”
“Seeing it is a just thing with God to repay tribulation to them that trouble you:”
“For it is an act of righteousness on God's part to give trouble as their reward to those who are troubling you,”
“Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;”
Thanksgiving We ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith flourishes more and more and the love of each one of you all for one another is ever greater.
As a result we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and afflictions you are enduring.
Encouragement in Persecution This is evidence of God’s righteous judgment, to make you worthy of the kingdom of God, for which in fact you are suffering.
For it is right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,
and to you who are being afflicted to give rest together with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels.
With flaming fire he will mete out punishment on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
They will undergo the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his strength,