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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

2 Thessalonians 1:6

Verse 6. Seeing it is a righteous thing] Though God neither rewards nor punishes in this life in a general way, yet he often gives proofs of his displeasure, especially against those who persecute his followers. They, therefore, who have given you tribulation, shall have tribulation in recompense.

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See also 2 Thessalonians 1:6 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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 p...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE REVELATION OF THE LORD JESUS FROM HEAVEN CHAPTER 1 _ 1. Salutation and thanksgiving (2 Thessalonians 1:1)_ 2. The revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven (2 Thessa...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    Introductory. Thanksgiving for the past and prayer for the future. Paul thanks God for the growing love of the Thessalonian Christians and their loyalty under persecution, and prays that they may be c...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    Paul and Silas and Timothy send this letter to the Church of the Thessalonians which is in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Brothers, we ought always to thank God for you, as it is fitting, b...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    LIFT UP YOUR HEARTS (2 Thessalonians 1:1-10)...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SEEING. If so be. Greek. _eiper_. WITH. App-104. TROUBLE. Greek. _thlibo_, afflict. The noun in 2 Thessalonians 1:7....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Section II. The Approaching Retribution Ch. 2 Thessalonians 1:5-12 These _vv._contain further reasons for _thanksgiving_on the writer's part, concluding with a _prayer_that his readers may receive th...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _seeing_it is _a righteous_thing _with God_ Lit., IF VERILY (if, as all will admit) IT IS RIGHTEOUS WITH GOD. The Apostle has just spoken (2 Thessalonians 1:5) of "God's righteous judgement" as manif...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΕἼΠΕΡ ΔΊΚΑΙΌΝ ἘΣΤΙΝ ΠΑΡᾺ ΘΕΩ͂Ι, _if to be sure it is righteous with God_. Εἴπερ is _siquidem_ (Ambrose, &c.), not _si tamen_ (Vulg.); cf. Romans 3:30; Romans 8:9; Romans 8:17;...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    § 2. 2 Thessalonians 1:5-12. THE APPROACHING JUDGEMENT The thought of the recompense awaiting the persecuted Thessalonian Church and its persecutors, respectively, swells the opening thanksgiving of t...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΕΪΠΕΡ (G1512) если вообще, предположим, что. Это слово вводит _conj._, которое предполагает реальность условия (RWP; von Dobschiitz). ΠΑΡΆ (G3844) с _dat._ Это ссылка на праведный Божий суд. ΆΝΤΑΠΟΔ...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 2210 THE STATE OF THE THESSALONIAN CHURCH 2 Thessalonians 1:3. We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charit...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    SEEING IT IS A RIGHTEOUS THING WITH GOD, &C.— _His justice is equally concerned to afflict those in their turns who have afflicted you;_ 2 Thessalonians 1:7 _and to grant to you who have been afflicte...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    TEXT (2 Thessalonians 1:6-7) 6 IF SO BE THAT IT IS A RIGHTEOUS THING WITH GOD TO RECOMPENSE AFFLICTION TO THEM THAT AFFLICT YOU, 7 AND TO YOU THAT ARE AFFLICTED REST WITH US, AT THE REVELATION OF THE...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; SEEING (THAT) IT IS A RIGHTEOUS THING - justifying the assertion that there is a "righteous judgment" (2...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    While Silvanus and Timothy are associated with Paul in this salutation, the epistle is practically by Paul himself and its genuineness is attested at the close by Paul's own signature (2Th_3:17). THA...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:6 least (a-3) This refers back to ver. 5....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    SALUTATIONS. THE SECOND ADVENT 1-4. Greeting and thanksgiving for their constant faith and love and patience under persecution: cp. 1 Thessalonians 1:3. 5-C. 2 THESSALONIANS 2:17. The Coming of Chri...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE *LORD HAS NOT COME YET 2 THE THESSALONIANS _IAN MACKERVOY_ ABOUT THE LETTER 1 THE WRITERS Like 1 Thessalonians, this letter is from Paul, Silas and Timothy. The writer of this letter used th...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    SEEING IT IS. — Literally, _if so be it is fair:_ a form very common in St. Paul, when he wishes to argue from some fact which he knows his readers will recognise (_e.g.,_ Romans 8:9). “Your persecuti...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 18 SUFFERING AND GLORY 2 Thessalonians 1:5 (R.V.) IN the preceding verses of this chapter, as in the opening of the First Epistle, the Apostle has spoken of the afflictions of the Thessaloni...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    The address (2 Thessalonians 1:1-2) is followed first by a thanksgiving (2 Thessalonians 1:3-10) which passes into a prophetic piece of consolation, and then by a brief prayer (2 T

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    FAITHFUL THROUGH FAITH IN A RIGHTEOUS GOD 2 Thessalonians 1:1 Notice the remarkable couplets of this chapter. Grace and peace, 2 Thessalonians 1:2; faith and love, 2 Thessalonians 1:3

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Evidently, this letter was intended primarily to correct certain mistakes which the Thessalonians were making concerning the Second Advent. They were failing to distinguish between the two phases, the...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    GOD'S COMING JUDGMENT The very fact that they were able to endure such hardships was a clear indication that God was with them. It also foreshadowed a day when God would judge all and punish those who...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (3) Seeing [it is] a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; (3) A proof: God is just, and therefore he will worthily punish the unjust, and will do away the mise...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Seeing [1] it is a just thing. Literally, If yet it be just. St. John Chrysostom takes notice, that we must not expound the text as if St. Paul made a doubt whether it was just or not for God to repay...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (3) We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of everyone of you all toward each other aboundeth; (4) So that we o...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    The second epistle takes up another difficulty. It was written in view of another abuse of the truth of the Lord's coming a danger that threatened the saints. As the first epistle was intended to guar...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    6_To appoint affliction_. We have already stated why it is that he makes mention of the vengeance of God against the wicked — that we may learn to rest in the expectation of a judgment to come, becaus...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    In the Second Epistle to the Thessalonians, the apostle corrects some errors into which these disciples had fallen with regard to the day of the Lord through certain false teachers; as in part of the...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    SEEING IT IS A RIGHTEOUS THING WITH GOD,.... That which is righteous in itself, is righteous in the sight of God, but it is not always so with men; men may think it a righteous thing that they should...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Seeing _it is_ a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; Ver. 6. _To recompense tribulation_] To trouble these troublers of Israel, and that throughout all eterni...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Seeing it is a righteous thing_ However men may judge of it; _with God_ To whom _belongeth vengeance_, (Romans 12:19,) and who _will avenge his elect that cry unto him day and night; to recompense tr...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    SEEING IT IS A RIGHTEOUS THING WITH GOD TO RECOMPENSE TRIBULATION TO THEM THAT TROUBLE YOU,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    PAUL'S PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING AND INTERCESSION. A prayer of thanksgiving for steadfastness in the midst of afflictions:...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    (V. 1) Again, the same brotherly character of address is used as in the first epistle. The threatened dangers to the Thessalonians did not change this, except in the use of the more gentle expression...

  • Manly Luscombe Commentary on New Testament

    God is righteous and will judge all men righteously. "To recompense" means he will pay back with a full and complete payment. God is a God of mercy and love. He is also a God of justice and wrath. (Ro...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    “IF SO BE THAT IT IS RIGHTEOUS THING WITH GOD TO RECOMPENSE AFFLICTION TO THEM THAT AFFLICT YOU” “If so be”: “It implies no doubt, but rhetorically puts. recognized fact as. supposition” _(Vincent p....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    5-10 Religion, if worth anything, is worth every thing; and those have no religion, or none worth having, or know not how to value it, cannot find their hearts to suffer for it. We cannot by all our...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    By these words the apostle doth illustrate his argument for a judgment to come, taken from the persecutions and tribulations of the saints. It is of necessity that God should be righteous, and recompe...

  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

    if so be that it is a righteous thing with God to recompense affliction to them that afflict you,...

  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

    Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV you; and to you who are troubled rest with us, at the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ from heaven with His mighty angels, and in a flame of fire, to take vengeance...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Thessalonians 1:6 since G1512 thing G1342 with G3844 God G2316 repay G467 (G5629) tribulation G2347 trouble...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God, for your patient endurance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure, a manifest token of the righteous judg...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    _Salutation Thanksgiving for the Faith of the Thessalonian Church under Persecution, Assurance of Compensation, and Prayer for the perfecting of their Faith._ Paul informs the Thessalonians of the emo...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    2 Thessalonians 1:6. IF INDEED IT IS A RIGHTEOUS THING WITH GOD. The confirmation of what has been said is put hypothetically to suggest the impossibility of the contrary supposition, and so present t...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    IF SO BE THAT IT IS A RIGHTEOUS THING WITH GOD (ειπερ δικαιον παρα θεω). Condition of first class, determined as fulfilled, assumed as true, but with ειπερ (if on the whole, provided that) as in Rom...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    2 Thessalonians 1:1 I. This Epistle opens with the mention of the same Apostolic group as does the first. Paul was not alone: Silvanus and Timotheus were still with him in closest fellowship of toil a...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    2 Thessalonians 1:1. _Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians_ Paul loved to associate his fellow-workers with himself when writing to his brethren and sisters in Chri...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    2 Thessalonians 1:1. _Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord J...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Believer's comfort in persecution. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Silvanus, Timothy. CONCLUSION: The patient suffering of believers for Christ's sake, is a manifest token that they are wor...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    2 Thessalonians 1:1. _Paul, and Silvanus,_ [the Roman name of Silas] _and Timotheus, to the church of the Thessalonians, in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ._ The inscription is the same as in...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    GOD WILL DO WHAT IS RIGHT. God will _be just_ in paying back those who persecute his people....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; and to you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed _ THE TWO TROUBLES AND THE...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    2 THESSALONIANS 1:3 Thanksgiving and Comfort for the Persecuted Thes­salonians. In Greek, vv. 2 Thessalonians 1:3 are one long sentence expressing Paul’s gratefulness and words of encouragement

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    2 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 2 THESSALONIANS 1:6 God judges fairly. Those now causing trouble for the Thessalonian Christians will be afflicted. The believers will get RELIEF at the second coming....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 2 Thessalonians 1:5. WHICH IS A MANIFEST TOKEN—“An _indication_.” The steadfast and resolute continuance in the profession and adornment of the Christian faith, in fa...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION CONTENTS.—Paul, after the address and salutation, commences this Epistle by rendering thanks to God for the welcome intelligence he had received of the increase of the faith and love of his...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Paul had come to Thessalonica with the gospel of Jesus Christ from Philippi where, as the result of his preaching, he had been imprisoned, beaten and really ordered out of the city. There in Thessalon...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Deuteronomy 32:41; Isaiah 49:26; Psalms 74:22; Psalms 74:23;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    Seeing it is [ε ι π ε ρ]. More literally, if so be that. Confirming, in a hypothetical form, the assertion of God's judgment upon persecutors, ver. 2 Thessalonians 1 :5It implies no doubt, but rhetori...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    It is a righteous thing with God — (However men may judge) to transfer the pressure from you to them. And it is remarkable that about this time, at the passover, the Jews raising a tumult, a great num...

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    Our apostle had shown in the foregoing verse, that their patience under persecution was. manifest evidence of God's intending them. portion of that kingdom, for which they suffered persecution; now in...

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