2 Thessalonians 1:5–11

Encouragement in Persecution

1:5 This is evidence of God’s righteous judgment, to make you worthy7 of the kingdom of God, for which in fact you are suffering. 1:6 For it is right8 for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you, 1:7 and to you who are being afflicted to give rest together with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed9 from heaven with his mighty angels.10 1:8 With flaming fire he will mete out11 punishment on those who do not know God12 and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 1:9 They13 will undergo the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his strength,14 1:10 when he comes to be glorified among his saints and admired15 on that day among all who have believed—and you did in fact believe our testimony.16 1:11 And in this regard we pray for you always, that our God will make you worthy of his calling17 and fulfill by his power your every desire for goodness and every work of faith,

7	tn Grk “so that you may be made worthy.” The passive infinitive καταξιωθῆναι (kataxiōthēnai) has been translated as an active construction in English for stylistic reasons.
8	tn Grk “if in fact/since,” as a continuation of the preceding.
9	tn Grk “at the revelation of the Lord Jesus.”
10	tn Grk “angels of power,” translated as an attributive genitive.
11	tn Grk “meting out,” as a description of Jesus Christ in v. 7. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started at the beginning of v. 8 in the translation.
12	sn An allusion to Jer 10:25, possibly also to Ps 79:6 and Isa 66:15.
13	tn Grk “who,” describing the people mentioned in v. 8. A new sentence was started here in the translation by replacing the relative pronoun with a personal pronoun.
14	tn Or “power,” or “might.” The construction can also be translated as an attributed genitive: “from his glorious strength” (cf. TEV “glorious might”; CEV “glorious strength”; NLT “glorious power”). sn An allusion to Isa 2:10, 19, 21.
15	tn Or “marveled at.”
16	tn Grk “because our testimony to you was believed.”
17	tn Or “your calling.”