6. It is only right for God to punish everyone who is causing you trouble,
7. but he will give you relief from your troubles. He will do the same for us, when the Lord Jesus comes from heaven with his powerful angels
8. and with a flaming fire.Our Lord Jesus will punish anyone who doesn't know God and won't obey his message.
9. Their punishment will be eternal destruction, and they will be kept far from the presence of our Lord and his glorious strength.
10. This will happen on that day when the Lord returns to be praised and honoured by all who have faith in him and belong to him. This includes you, because you believed what we said.
11. God chose you, and we keep praying that God will make you worthy of being his people. We pray for God's power to help you do all the good things that you hope to do and that your faith makes you want to do.
12. Then, because God and our Lord Jesus Christ are so kind, you will bring honour to the name of our Lord Jesus, and he will bring honour to you.