2 Thessalonians 1:4-7

AUV(i) 4 Therefore, we ourselves speak proudly about you among the churches of God because of your steadfastness and faith amid all the persecutions and afflictions that you are enduring. 5 The way you are faithfully enduring [such] suffering for the kingdom of God is clear evidence that God’s judgment is right in [eventually] counting you worthy of it [i.e., of entering the eternal phase of the kingdom]. 6 For it is a just thing for God to repay with affliction those people who are troubling you, 7 and to provide [future] rest for you, along with us, who are afflicted. [This will occur] when Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire [i.e., at His second coming], accompanied by His mighty angels.