2 Thessalonians 1:5-7 These persecutions will vindicate the justice of God's judgment, and will result in your being reckoned worthy of God's Kingdom, for the sake of which you are now afflicted;

Twentieth_Century⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁵ These persecutions will vindicate the justice of God's judgment, and will result in your being reckoned worthy of God's Kingdom, for the sake of which you are now afflicted; ⁶ Since God deems it just to inflict suffering upon those who are now inflicting suffering upon you, ⁷ And to give relief to you who are suffering, as well as to us, at the Appearing of the Lord Jesus from Heaven with his mighty angels, 'in flaming fire.'