2 Tesalonika 1:4

1:4 As a result we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and afflictions you are enduring.

2 Tesalonika 1:6-8

1:6 For it is right ¹  for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you, 1:7 and to you who are being afflicted to give rest together with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed ²  from heaven with his mighty angels. ³  1:8 With flaming fire he will mete out ⁴  punishment on those who do not know God ⁵  and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

2 Tesalonika 1:10

1:10 when he comes to be glorified among his saints and admired ⁶  on that day among all who have believed – and you did in fact believe our testimony. ⁷ 

2 Tesalonika 2:10

2:10 and with every kind of evil deception directed against ⁸  those who are perishing, because they found no place in their hearts for the truth ⁹  so as to be saved.

2 Tesalonika 3:12

3:12 Now such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to work quietly and so provide their own food to eat. ¹⁰ 

[1:6]  ¹ tn Grk “if in fact/since,” as a continuation of the preceding.

[1:7]  ² tn Grk “at the revelation of the Lord Jesus.”

[1:7]  ³ tn Grk “angels of power,” translated as an attributive genitive.

[1:8]  ⁴ tn Grk “meting out,” as a description of Jesus Christ in v. 7. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started at the beginning of v. 8 in the translation.

[1:8]  ⁵ sn An allusion to Jer 10:25, possibly also to Ps 79:6 and Isa 66:15.

[1:10]  ⁶ tn Or “marveled at.”

[1:10]  ⁷ tn Grk “because our testimony to you was believed.”

[2:10]  ⁸ tn Grk “deception for/toward.”

[2:10]  ⁹ tn Grk “they did not accept the love of the truth.”

[3:12]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “that by working quietly they may eat their own bread.”