2 Thessalonians 1:6 God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you

English Standard Version
since indeed God considers it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

New American Standard Bible
For after all it is only just for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

King James Bible
Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
since it is righteous for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you

International Standard Version
Certainly it is right for God to pay back those who afflict you with affliction,

American Standard Version
if so be that it is righteous thing with God to recompense affliction to them that afflict you,

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

Darby Bible Translation
if at least it is a righteous thing with God to render tribulation to those that trouble you,

Young's Literal Translation
since it is a righteous thing with God to give back to those troubling you -- trouble,

Cross References

Exodus 23:22
But if you shall indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.

Ecclesiastes 3:17
I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.

Jeremiah 50:29
Call together the archers against Babylon: all you that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do to her: for she has been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.

Colossians 3:25
But he that does wrong shall receive for the wrong which he has done: and there is no respect of persons.

Hebrews 6:10
For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, which you have showed toward his name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

1:5-10 Religion, if worth anything, is worth every thing; and those have no religion, or none worth having, or know not how to value it, cannot find their hearts to suffer for it. We cannot by all our sufferings, any more than by our services, merit heaven; but by our patience under sufferings, we are prepared for the promised joy. Nothing more strongly marks a man for eternal ruin, than a spirit of persecution and enmity to the name and people of God. God will trouble those that trouble his people. And there is a rest for the people of God; a rest from sin and sorrow. The certainty of future recompence is proved by the righteousness of God. The thoughts of this should be terrible to wicked men, and support the righteous. Faith, looking to the great day, is enabled partly to understand the book of providence, which appears confused to unbelievers. The Lord Jesus will in that day appear from heaven. He will come in the glory and power of the upper world. His light will be piercing, and his power consuming, to all who in that day shall be found as chaff. This appearance will be terrible to those that know not God, especially to those who rebel against revelation, and obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. This is the great crime of multitudes, the gospel is revealed, and they will not believe it; or if they pretend to believe, they will not obey it. Believing the truths of the gospel, is in order to our obeying the precepts of the gospel. Though sinners may be long spared, they will be punished at last. They did sin's work, and must receive sin's wages. Here God punishes sinners by creatures as instruments; but then, it will be destruction from the Almighty; and who knows the power of his anger? It will be a joyful day to some, to the saints, to those who believe and obey the gospel. In that bright and blessed day, Christ Jesus will be glorified and admired by his saints. And Christ will be glorified and admired in them. His grace and power will be shown, when it shall appear what he has purchased for, and wrought in, and bestowed upon those who believe in him. Lord, if the glory put upon thy saints shall be thus admired, how much more shalt thou be admired, as the Bestower of that glory! The glory of thy justice in the damnation of the wicked will be admired, but not as the glory of thy mercy in the salvation of believers. How will this strike the adoring angels with holy admiration, and transport thy admiring saints with eternal rapture! The meanest believer shall enjoy more than the most enlarged heart can imagine while we are here; Christ will be admired in all those that believe, the meanest believer not excepted.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

6. seeing it is a righteous thing—This justifies the assertion above of there being a "righteous judgment" (2Th 1:5), namely, "seeing that it is (literally, 'if at least,' 'if at all events it is') a righteous thing with (that is, in the estimation of) God" (which, as we all feel, it certainly is). Our own innate feeling of what is just, in this confirms what is revealed.

recompense—requite in kind, namely, tribulation to them that trouble you (affliction to those that afflict you); and to you who are troubled, rest from trouble.