2 Thessalonians 1:6
After all, it is only right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,
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ASV
if so be that it is a righteous thing with God to recompense affliction to them that afflict you,
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Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
It is a righteous thing with God - (However men may judge) to transfer the pressure from you to them. And it is remarkable that about this time, at the passover, the Jews raising a tumult, a great number (some say thirty thousand) of them were slain.
This he has done sometimes in this world, witness the dreadful end of many persecutors; but especially this he will do in the other world, where the portion of the wicked must be weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth. (2.) A reward for those that are persecuted: God will recompense their trouble with rest,
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Zechariah 2:8For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “After His Glory has sent Me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of His eye—
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Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings
He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.
But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.
But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have told you.
they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.
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Colossians 3:25Whoever does wrong will be repaid for his wrong, and there is no favoritism.
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Then Peter began to speak: “I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism,
For God does not show favoritism.
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the body, whether good or bad.
