^{4 Ref} so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which ye endure;

^{5 Ref} `which is' a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God; to the end that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:

^{6 Ref} if so be that it is righteous thing with God to recompense affliction to them that afflict you,

^{7 Ref} and to you that are afflicted rest with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his power in flaming fire,

^{8 Ref} rendering vengeance to them that know not God, and to them that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus: