2 Thessalonians 1:7-10

1:7 and to you who are being afflicted to give rest together with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed ¹  from heaven with his mighty angels. ²  1:8 With flaming fire he will mete out ³  punishment on those who do not know God ⁴  and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 1:9 They ⁵  will undergo the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his strength, ⁶  1:10 when he comes to be glorified among his saints and admired ⁷  on that day among all who have believed – and you did in fact believe our testimony. ⁸ 

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¹ tn Grk “at the revelation of the Lord Jesus.”

² tn Grk “angels of power,” translated as an attributive genitive.

³ tn Grk “meting out,” as a description of Jesus Christ in v. 7. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started at the beginning of v. 8 in the translation.

⁴ sn An allusion to Jer 10:25, possibly also to Ps 79:6 and Isa 66:15.

⁵ tn Grk “who,” describing the people mentioned in v. 8. A new sentence was started here in the translation by replacing the relative pronoun with a personal pronoun.

⁶ tn Or “power,” or “might.” The construction can also be translated as an attributed genitive: “from his glorious strength” (cf. TEV “glorious might”; CEV “glorious strength”; NLT “glorious power”).

sn An allusion to Isa 2:10, 19, 21.

⁷ tn Or “marveled at.”

⁸ tn Grk “because our testimony to you was believed.”