2 Thessalonians 1:4-6 So that we ourselves glory of you in the churches of God, for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and sufferings which ye endure:

Wesley⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁴ So that we ourselves glory of you in the churches of God, for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and sufferings which ye endure: ⁵ A manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be accounted, worthy of the kingdom of God; for which also ye suffer. ⁶ Seeing it is a righteous thing with God, to recompence affliction to them that afflict you.