2 Thessalonians 1:6
Good News Translation
God will do what is right: he will bring suffering on those who make you suffer,

New Revised Standard Version
For it is indeed just of God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

Contemporary English Version
It is only right for God to punish everyone who is causing you trouble,

New American Bible
For it is surely just on God’s part to repay with afflictions those who are afflicting you,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Seeing it is a just thing with God to repay tribulation to them that trouble you:

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Seeing it is a just thing with God to repay tribulation to them that trouble you:

Deuteronomy 32:41-43 If I shall whet my sword as the lightning, and my hand take hold on judgment: I will render vengeance to my enemies, and repay them that hate me. . . .

Psalm 74:22,23 Arise, O God, judge thy own cause: remember thy reproaches with which the foolish man hath reproached thee all the day. . . .

Psalm 79:10-12 Lest they should say among the Gentiles: Where is their God? And let him be made known among the nations before our eyes, By the revenging the blood of thy servants, which hath been shed: . . .

Psalm 94:20-23 Doth the seat of iniquity stick to thee, who framest labour in commandment? . . .

Isaiah 49:26 And I will feed thy enemies with their own flesh: and they shall be made drunk with their own blood, as with new wine: and all flesh shall know, that I am the Lord that save thee, and thy Redeemer the Mighty One of Jacob.

Zechariah 2:8 For thus saith the Lord of hosts: After the glory he hath sent me to the nations that have robbed you: for he that toucheth you, toucheth the apple of my eye:

Revelation 6:10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying: How long, O Lord (Holy and True), dost thou not judge and revenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

Revelation 11:18 And the nations were angry: and thy wrath is come. And the time of the dead, that they should be judged and that thou shouldest render reward to thy servants the prophets and the saints, and to them that fear thy name, little and great: and shouldest destroy them who have corrupted the earth.

Revelation 15:4 Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and magnify thy name? For thou only art holy. For all nations shall come and shall adore in thy sight, because thy judgments are manifest.

Revelation 16:5,6 And I heard the angel of the waters saying: Thou art just, O Lord, who art and who wast, the Holy One, because thou hast judged these things. . . .

Revelation 18:20,24 Rejoice over her, thou heaven and ye holy apostles and prophets. For God hath judged your judgment on her. . . .

Revelation 19:2 For true and just are his judgments, who hath judged the great harlot which corrupted the earth with her fornication and hath revenged the blood of his servants, at her hands.

Context
Christ's Coming
5For an example of the just judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which also you suffer. 6Seeing it is a just thing with God to repay tribulation to them that trouble you: 7And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with the angels of his power:…
Cross References
Exodus 23:22
But if thou wilt hear hi voice, and do all that I speak, I will be an enemy to thy enemies, and will afflict them that afflict thee.

Ecclesiastes 3:17
And I said in my heart: God shall judge both the just and the wicked, and then shall be the time of every thing.

Jeremiah 50:29
Declare to many against Babylon, to all that bend the bow: stand together against her round about, and let none escape; pay her according to her work: according to all that she hath done, do ye to her: for she hath lifted up herself against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.

Colossians 3:25
For he that doth wrong shall receive for that which he hath done wrongfully. And there is no respect of persons with God.

Hebrews 6:10
For God is not unjust, that he should forget your work and the love which you have shewn in his name, you who have ministered and do minister to the saints.

2 Thessalonians 1:5
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