Persecution, affliction, distress, tribulation.
Study This × Bible Gateway Plus. And if not in this life, it is a certain thing that hereafter such shall have indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish; they shall be cast into outward darkness, into the lake of fire; and the hottest place in hell will be their portion, even devouring flames, and everlasting burnings; and are what is designed by tribulations here. So Romans 3:30; Romans 8:9, Romans 8:17; 1 Corinthians 8:5. From dike; equitable; by implication, innocent, holy. No one can seriously maintain that there is an equal distribution of rewards and punishments on the earth.
Them that trouble you. Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you - The sense is: “There will be a future judgment, because it is proper that God should punish those who now persecute you. In like manner, many a man lives a life of profligacy; or is an open scoffer; or aims to cast off the government of God; or is a seducer of innocence; and yet lives in the midst of wealth, and goes down in calmness and peace to the grave; Psalm 73:3-5; Job 21:23-33.
Confirming, in a hypothetical form, the assertion of God's judgment upon persecutors, 2 Thessalonians 1:5. The, the definite article. (2) it would not be right not to do it.
How can it be reconciled with his perfections that he can hold up before mankind the assurance that any of them will be punished forever, unless it be right that it should be so? NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. From ei and per; if perhaps.
Why is it not just that such an one should be punished in the future world?
Verb - Present Participle Active - Dative Masculine Plural. Brief an die Thessalonicher. Akin to the base of tribos; to crowd. (4) the Judge of all the earth "will do right;" and if it is right to declare that "the wicked shall be turned into hell," it will not be wrong to inflict the sentence. God “will pay back trouble to those who trouble” His people. Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission.
Who could know what to believe when he makes the most solemn declaration? (1) it is inconceivable that God should threaten such punishment unless it were just. Many a murderer, pirate, robber, traitor, and plunderer of nations under the name of a conqueror, thus dies. No one can doubt that it would be a just thing to punish them here if they could be arrested.
From thlibo; pressure. From anti and apodidomi; to requite.
Holy Scripture always sets forth the power of the human conscience to recognise God's principles of action: whatever is righteous for men is so for God, and vice versa. Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; will avenge his elect that cry unto him day and night; to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you. (3) it cannot be believed that God has uttered a threatening which he never meant to execute, or to appear before the universe as having held up before men the terror of the most awful punishment which could be inflicted, but which he never intended to carry into effect.
Many a man goes to the grave having received no adequate punishment for his crimes. (2) people themselves believe that it is just that the wicked should be punished. New International Version (NIV), Upgrade to Bible Gateway Plus, and access, 2 Thessalonians 1:6 in all English translations, NIV, Beautiful Word Bible Journal, Romans, Comfort Print, NIV, Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible, Red Letter Edition: Bringing to Life the Ancient World of Scripture, NIV, Quest Study Bible, Comfort Print: The Only Q and A Study Bible, NIV, Beautiful Word Bible Journal, Acts, Comfort Print, NIV, Story of Jesus: Experience the Life of Jesus as One Seamless Story. 6 After all, it is only right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you, 7 and to grant relief to you who are oppressed and to us as well. Bible Gateway Recommends. Can that be wrong in him which is right in themselves?
to recompence tribulation to them that trouble you: persecution is an affliction, or a trouble to the saints; persecutors trouble them in their minds and bodies, in their persons and property; they trouble their minds by casting reflections and reproaches upon them, by severe revilings, and cruel mockings, which all are not alike able to bear; and they trouble and afflict their bodies by imprisonment and bonds, by scourging and beating, and various cruel and torturing deaths; and they disturb them in the possession of their estates, by spoiling their goods, and confiscating them to their own use; and it is but according to "lex talionis", the law of retaliation, to render tribulation to such troublers of God's Israel; and to them it is recompensed, either in this world, or in the world to come: sometimes in this world persecutors are manifest instances of God's judgments and wrath upon them, as Herod, who stretched out his hands to vex certain of the church, killed James the brother of John, and imprisoned Peter, and was smitten by the angel of the Lord, and was eaten of worms; and the Jews, who were now the only and the implacable persecutors of the saints, in a short time had the wrath of God come upon them to the uttermost, even upon their nation, city, and temple, upon their persons and property.