2 Thessalonians 1:8

God's Word

He will take revenge on those who refuse to acknowledge God and on those who refuse to respond to the Good News about our Lord Jesus.

Cross References

Genesis 3:24

After he sent the man out, God placed angels  and a flaming sword that turned in all directions east of the Garden of Eden. He placed them there to guard the way to the tree of life.

2 Samuel 23:7

A person who touches them uses iron ⌞tools⌟ or the shaft of a spear. Fire  will burn them up completely wherever they are.”

Psalm 18:44

As soon as they hear of me, they will obey me. Foreigners will cringe in front of me.

Psalm 79:6

Pour your fury on the nations that do not know you, on the kingdoms that have not called you.

Psalm 9:10

Those who know your name trust you, O Lord, because you have never deserted those who seek your help.

Psalm 94:1

O Lord, God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, appear!

Exodus 5:2

Pharaoh asked, “Who is the Lord? Why should I obey him and let Israel go? I don’t know the Lord, and I won’t let Israel go.”

Isaiah 1:19

If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best from the land.

Isaiah 1:28

Rebels and sinners will be crushed at the same time, and those who abandon the Lord will come to an end.

Isaiah 27:11

When the branches are dried up, they will be broken off. Women will come and build a fire with them. These people don’t understand ⌞these things⌟. That is why their maker won’t have compassion on them, and their Creator won’t have pity on them.

Isaiah 61:2

⌞He has sent me⌟ to announce the year of the Lord’s good will and the day of our God’s vengeance, to comfort all those who grieve.

Jeremiah 10:25

Pour out your fury on the nations who don’t know you and on people who don’t worship you. They have devoured the descendants of Jacob. They have devoured them completely. They have destroyed their homes.

Jeremiah 9:6

Oppression follows oppression. Deceit follows deceit. They refuse to acknowledge me,” declares the Lord.

Daniel 7:10

A river of fire flowed. It came from him. Thousands and thousands served him. Ten thousand times ten thousand were stationed in front of him. The court convened, and the books were opened.

Zephaniah 1:6

I will remove those who have turned away from following the Lord and those who no longer seek the Lord or ask him for help.”

Matthew 25:41

“Then the king will say to those on his left, ‘Get away from me! God has cursed you! Go into everlasting fire that was prepared for the devil and his angels!

Matthew 25:46

“These people will go away into eternal punishment, but those with God’s approval will go into eternal life.”

John 3:19

This is why people are condemned: The light came into the world. Yet, people loved the dark rather than the light because their actions were evil.

John 8:19

The Pharisees asked him, “Where is your father?” Jesus replied, “You don’t know me or my Father. If you knew me, you would also know my Father.”

Acts 6:7

God’s word continued to spread, and the number of disciples in Jerusalem grew very large. A large number of priests accepted the faith.

Romans 1:28

And because they thought it was worthless to acknowledge God, God allowed their own immoral minds to control them. So they do these indecent things.

Romans 1:5

Through him we have received God’s kindness  and the privilege of being apostles who bring people from every nation to the obedience that is associated with faith. This is for the honor of his name.

Romans 10:16

But not everyone has believed the Good News. Isaiah asks, “Lord, who has believed our message?”

Romans 15:18

I’m bold enough to tell you only what Christ has done through me to bring people who are not Jewish to obedience. By what I have said and done,

Romans 16:26

but now is publicly known. The everlasting God ordered that what the prophets wrote must be shown to the people of every nation to bring them to the obedience that is associated with faith.

Romans 6:16

Don’t you know that if you offer to be someone’s slave, you must obey that master? Either your master is sin, or your master is obedience. Letting sin be your master leads to death. Letting obedience be your master leads to God’s approval.

1 Corinthians 15:34

Come back to the right point of view, and stop sinning. Some people don’t know anything about God. You should be ashamed of yourselves.

2 Corinthians 10:5

and all their intellectual arrogance that oppose the knowledge of God. We take every thought captive so that it is obedient to Christ.

Galatians 3:1

You stupid people of Galatia! Who put you under an evil spell? Wasn’t Christ Jesus’ crucifixion clearly described to you?

Galatians 4:8

When you didn’t know God, you were slaves to things which are really not gods at all.

Deuteronomy 32:35

I will take revenge and be satisfied. In due time their foot will slip, because their day of disaster is near. Their doom is coming quickly.

Deuteronomy 4:11

So you came and stood at the foot of the mountain, which was on fire with flames shooting into the sky. It was dark, cloudy, and gloomy.

Deuteronomy 4:30

When you’re in distress and all these things happen to you, then you will finally come back to the Lord your God and obey him.

Deuteronomy 5:5

I stood between the Lord and you to tell you the Lord’s word, because you were afraid of the fire and didn’t go up on the mountain. The Lord said:

1 Thessalonians 4:5

not in the passionate, lustful way of people who don’t know God.

Hebrews 10:27

All that is left is a terrifying wait for judgment and a raging fire that will consume God’s enemies.

Hebrews 10:30

We know the God who said, “I alone have the right to take revenge. I will pay back.” God also said, “The Lord will judge his people.”

Hebrews 11:8

Faith led Abraham to obey when God called him to go to a place that he would receive as an inheritance. Abraham left his own country without knowing where he was going.

Hebrews 12:29

After all, our God is a destructive fire.

Hebrews 2:3

So how will we escape punishment if we reject the important message, the message that God saved us? First, the Lord told this saving message. Then those who heard him confirmed that message.

Hebrews 5:9

After he had finished his work, he became the source of eternal salvation for everyone who obeys him.

1 Peter 1:2

God the Father knew you long ago and chose you to live holy lives with the Spirit’s help so that you are obedient to Jesus Christ and are sprinkled with his blood. May good will  and peace fill your lives!

1 Peter 3:6

as Sarah did. Sarah obeyed Abraham and spoke to him respectfully. You became Sarah’s daughters by not letting anything make you afraid to do good.

1 Peter 4:17

The time has come for the judgment to begin, and it will begin with God’s family. If it starts with us, what will be the end for those who refuse to obey the Good News of God?

2 Peter 3:7

By God’s word, the present heaven and earth are designated to be burned. They are being kept until the day ungodly people will be judged and destroyed.

Jude 1:7

What happened to Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities near them is an example for us of the punishment of eternal fire. The people of these cities suffered the same fate that God’s people and the angels did, because they committed sexual sins and engaged in homosexual activities.

Revelation 20:10

The devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the fiery lake of sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet were also thrown. They will be tortured day and night forever and ever.

Revelation 21:8

But cowardly, unfaithful, and detestable people, murderers, sexual sinners, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars will find themselves in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”

Revelation 6:10

They cried out in a loud voice, “Holy and true Master, how long before you judge and take revenge on those living on earth who shed our blood?”

1 Samuel 2:12

Eli’s sons, ⌞Hophni and Phinehas,⌟ were good-for-nothing priests; they had no faith in the Lord.