2 Thessalonians 1:5-7

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

The Judgement at Christ’s Coming

⁵ This is evidence of the righteous judgement of God, and is intended to make you worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering. ⁶ For it is indeed just of God to repay with affliction those who afflict you, ⁷ and to give relief to the afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels