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2 Thessalonians 1:5-7
1599 Geneva Bible
2 Thessalonians 1:5-7
1599 Geneva Bible
5 (A)[a]Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for the which ye also suffer.
6 [b]For it is a righteous thing with God, to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you,
7 And to you which are troubled, rest [c]with us, (B)[d]when the Lord Jesus shall show himself from heaven with his mighty Angels,
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- 2 Thessalonians 1:5 He openeth the fountain of all true comfort, to wit, that in afflictions, which we suffer of the wicked for righteousness sake, we may behold as it were in a glass the testimony of that judgment to come, and the end therefore most acceptable to us, and most sharp to his enemies.
- 2 Thessalonians 1:6 A proof: God is just, therefore he will worthily punish the unjust, and will do away the miseries of his people.
- 2 Thessalonians 1:7 He confirmeth them also by the way, by this means, that the condition both of this present state and the state to come, is common to him with them.
- 2 Thessalonians 1:7 A most glorious description of the second coming of Christ, to be set against all the miseries of the godly, and the triumphs of the wicked.
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