2 Thessalonians 1:5

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἔνδειγμα τῆς δικαίας κρίσεως τοῦ Θεοῦ, εἰς τὸ καταξιωθῆναι ὑμᾶς τῆς βασιλείας τοῦ Θεοῦ, ὑπὲρ ἧς καὶ πάσχετε:

Transliteration

Endeigma of the dikaias kriseōs of Theos, for the kataxiōthēnai you of the basileias of Theos, for which also you paschete:

Grammar Details

• *Endeigma*: nominative, neuter, singular - token/proof/evidence
• *dikaias*: genitive, feminine, singular - righteous/just
• *kriseōs*: genitive, feminine, singular - judgment/decision
• *Theos*: genitive, masculine, singular - possessive
• εἰς τὸ *kataxiōthēnai*: preposition + article + aorist infinitive, passive - purpose
• ὑμᾶς: accusative, 2nd person, plural - subject of infinitive
• *basileias*: genitive, feminine, singular - object of *kataxiōthēnai*
• ὑπὲρ ἧς: preposition + genitive, feminine, singular, relative pronoun - for which
• *paschete*: present indicative, active, 2nd person, plural - you suffer

Word Meanings

• *Endeigma*: token/proof/evidence
• *dikaias*: righteous/just/fair
• *kriseōs*: judgment/decision/verdict
• *Theos*: God/deity
• *kataxiōthēnai*: to be counted worthy/deemed deserving
• *basileias*: kingdom/reign/rule
• *paschete*: suffer/experience hardship

Referenced Verses

• Phil 1:28 : 28 And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.
• Luke 20:35 : 35 But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:
• Rev 19:2 : 2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
• 2 Thess 1:11 : 11 Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:
• Acts 14:22 : 22 Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
• Rom 2:5 : 5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
• Rom 8:17 : 17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
• Eph 4:1 : 1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
• Col 1:12 : 12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
• 1 Thess 2:14 : 14 For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:
• 2 Thess 1:6-7 : 6 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; 7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
• Job 8:3 : 3 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
• Ps 9:7-8 : 7 But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment. 8 And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
• Ps 33:5 : 5 He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.
• Ps 50:6 : 6 And the heavens shall declare{H8686)} his righteousness: for God is judge{H8802)} himself. Selah.
• Ps 72:2 : 2 He shall judge{H8799)} thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
• Ps 99:4 : 4 The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
• Ps 111:7 : 7 The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure.
• Jer 9:24 : 24 But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.
• Dan 4:37 : 37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
• 2 Tim 2:12 : 12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:
• Heb 10:32-33 : 32 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions; 33 Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
• 1 Pet 4:14-18 : 14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. 15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters. 16 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf. 17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? 18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
• Rev 3:4 : 4 Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.
• Rev 15:4 : 4 Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.
• Rev 16:7 : 7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
• Luke 21:36 : 36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
• Acts 13:46 : 46 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.