2 Thessalonians 1:5-9

This is a plain indication of God’s righteous judgment so that you will be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you indeed are suffering.

For after all it is only right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

and to give relief to you who are afflicted, along with us, when the Lord Jesus will be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels

in flaming fire, dealing out retribution to those who do not know God, and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

These people will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power,