2 Thessalonians 1:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God and is intended to make you worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ This is positive proof of the just and right judgment of God to the end that you may be deemed deserving of His kingdom [a plain token of His fair verdict which designs that you should be made and counted worthy of the kingdom of God], for the sake of which you are also suffering.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God; to the end that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:

Common English Bible

⁵ This shows that God’s judgment is right, and that you will be considered worthy of God’s kingdom for which you are suffering.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ which are a sign of the just judgment of God, so that you may be held worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer.

2 Thessalonians 1:5 Cross References

Philippians 1:28

and in no way frightened by those opposing you. For them, this is evidence of their destruction but of your salvation. And this is God’s doing.

Acts 14:22

There they strengthened the souls of the disciples and encouraged them to continue in the faith, saying, “It is through many persecutions that we must enter the kingdom of God.”

Revelation 19:2

for his judgments are true and just; he has judged the great whore who corrupted the earth with her prostitution, and he has avenged on her the blood of his servants.”

Luke 20:35

but those who are considered worthy of a place in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.

2 Timothy 2:12

if we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he will also deny us;

2 Thessalonians 1:11

To this end we always pray for you, asking that our God will make you worthy of his call and will fulfill by his power every good resolve and work of faith,

Romans 8:17

and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if we in fact suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.

Psalm 99:4

Mighty King, lover of justice, you have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.

Revelation 16:7

And I heard the altar respond, “Yes, O Lord God, the Almighty, your judgments are true and just!”

Revelation 15:4

Lord, who will not fear and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before you, for your judgments have been revealed.”

Revelation 3:4

Yet you have still a few persons in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes; they will walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy.

1 Thessalonians 2:14

For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, for you suffered the same things from your own compatriots as they did from the Jews

Colossians 1:12

giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light.

Ephesians 4:1

I, therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,

Romans 2:5

But by your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.

Acts 13:46

Then both Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, “It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken first to you. Since you reject it and judge yourselves to be unworthy of eternal life, we are now turning to the gentiles.

Luke 21:36

Be alert at all times, praying that you may have the strength to escape all these things that will take place and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Daniel 4:37

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are truth, and his ways are justice; he is able to bring low those who walk in pride.

Jeremiah 9:24

but let those who boast boast in this, that they understand and know me, that I am the Lord; I act with steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for in these things I delight, says the Lord.

Psalm 111:7

The works of his hands are faithful and just; all his precepts are trustworthy.

Psalm 72:2

May he judge your people with righteousness and your poor with justice.

Psalm 50:6

The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah

Psalm 33:5

He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the Lord.

Job 8:3

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?