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.
5. This is evidence of God’s righteous judgment, to make you worthy of the kingdom of God, for which in fact you are suffering.
6. For it is right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,
7. and to you who are being afflicted to give rest together with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels.