2 Thessalonians 1:4-6

Darby Translation

⁴ so that we ourselves make our boast in you in the assemblies of God for your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations, which ye are sustaining;

⁵ a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that ye should be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for the sake of which ye also suffer;

⁶ if at least [it is a] righteous thing with God to render tribulation to those that trouble you,