3 We ought to give thanks to God always concerning you, brothers, just as it is fitting, because your faith is flourishing and the love of each one of you all toward one another is increasing
4 so that we ourselves boast in you in the churches of God about your patient endurance and faith in all your persecutions and the afflictions that you are enduring,
5 a proof of the righteous judgment of God, so that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, on behalf of which also you are suffering,
6 since it is righteous in the sight of God to pay back those who are afflicting you with affliction,
7 and to you who are being afflicted, rest with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his powerful angels,
8 with burning flame giving punishment to those who do not know God and who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus,
9 who will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his strength,