2 Thessalonians 1:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

In flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

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  • Gal 4:8 : 8 However, then, when you did not know God, you served those which by nature are not gods.
  • Heb 10:27 : 27 But a certain fearful expectation of judgment and fiery indignation, which will devour the adversaries.
  • Heb 12:29 : 29 For our God is a consuming fire.
  • 1 Pet 4:17 : 17 For the time has come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begins with us, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God?
  • 2 Pet 3:7 : 7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved for fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
  • 2 Pet 3:10-12 : 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are in it shall be burned up. 11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in all holy conduct and godliness, 12 Looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, in which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
  • Rev 20:10 : 10 And the devil who deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
  • Rev 20:14-15 : 14 And Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15 And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.
  • Matt 25:41 : 41 Then he will also say to those on the left hand, Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.
  • Ps 79:6 : 6 Pour out Your wrath upon the heathen who have not known You, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon Your name.
  • Ps 94:1 : 1 O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongs; O God, to whom vengeance belongs, show yourself.
  • Isa 1:19 : 19 If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land:
  • Isa 27:11 : 11 When its boughs are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore He who made them will not have mercy on them, and He who formed them will show them no favor.
  • Isa 61:2 : 2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;
  • Isa 63:4-6 : 4 For the day of vengeance is in my heart, and the year of my redeemed has come. 5 And I looked, and there was no one to help; and I wondered that there was no one to uphold: therefore my own arm brought salvation for me; and my fury, it upheld me. 6 And I will tread down the people in my anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
  • Jer 9:6 : 6 Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD.
  • Dan 7:10 : 10 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him. Thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. The judgment was set, and the books were opened.
  • Zeph 1:6 : 6 And those that have turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor inquired for Him.
  • Deut 5:5 : 5 (I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to show you the word of the LORD: for you were afraid because of the fire, and did not go up into the mountain;) saying,
  • Deut 32:35 : 35 To me belong vengeance, and recompense; their foot shall slip in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
  • Deut 32:41-42 : 41 If I sharpen my glittering sword, and my hand takes hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my enemies, and will reward those who hate me. 42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenge upon the enemy.
  • 1 Sam 2:12 : 12 Now the sons of Eli were worthless men; they did not know the LORD.
  • Ps 2:9-9 : 9 You shall break them with a rod of iron; you shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. 10 Be wise now therefore, O you kings: be instructed, you judges of the earth. 11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. 12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
  • Ps 9:10 : 10 And those who know your name will put their trust in you; for you, LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.
  • Ps 18:44 : 44 As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves to me.
  • Ps 21:8-9 : 8 Your hand shall find all your enemies: your right hand shall find those who hate you. 9 You shall make them as a fiery oven in the time of your anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall consume them.
  • Ps 50:2-6 : 2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shone forth. 3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silent: a fire shall devour before Him, and it shall be very stormy around Him. 4 He shall call to the heavens above, and to the earth, that He may judge His people. 5 Gather My saints together to Me; those that have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice. 6 And the heavens shall declare His righteousness: for God Himself is judge. Selah.
  • Matt 25:46 : 46 And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.
  • John 3:19 : 19 This is the condemnation, that light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
  • John 8:19 : 19 Then they said to him, Where is your Father? Jesus answered, You neither know me nor my Father: if you had known me, you should have known my Father also.
  • Acts 6:7 : 7 The word of God spread, the number of the disciples in Jerusalem increased greatly, and a large group of the priests became obedient to the faith.
  • Rom 1:5 : 5 Through whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for His name;
  • Rom 1:28 : 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
  • Rom 2:7-8 : 7 To those who by patient continuance in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life: 8 But to those who are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
  • Rom 6:16 : 16 Do you not know that to whom you yield yourselves as servants to obey, you are the servants of the one whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?
  • Rom 10:16 : 16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?"
  • Rom 15:18 : 18 For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not accomplished through me, in making the Gentiles obedient by word and deed,
  • Rom 16:26 : 26 But now is revealed, and by the prophetic scriptures, according to the commandment of the eternal God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:
  • 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Awake to righteousness and do not sin; for some do not have the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.
  • 2 Cor 10:5 : 5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
  • Gal 3:1 : 1 O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been clearly set forth, crucified among you?
  • 1 Thess 4:5 : 5 Not in passionate lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God:
  • Heb 2:3 : 3 How shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those that heard him;
  • Heb 5:9 : 9 And having been made perfect, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him;
  • Gen 3:24 : 24 So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
  • Exod 5:2 : 2 And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, nor will I let Israel go.
  • Deut 4:11 : 11 And you came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and sexually immoral, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
  • Rev 6:10 : 10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, do you not judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?
  • Rev 6:16-17 : 16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 17 For the great day of his wrath has come; and who shall be able to stand?
  • 1 Pet 1:2 : 2 Chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification by the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace and peace be multiplied to you.
  • 1 Pet 3:6 : 6 Just as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose daughters you are if you do good and are not afraid with any fear.
  • Heb 10:30 : 30 For we know him who has said, Vengeance belongs to me, I will repay, says the Lord. And again, The Lord will judge his people.
  • Heb 11:8 : 8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out to a place which he would afterward receive as an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing where he was going.
  • Deut 4:30 : 30 When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you, even in the latter days, if you turn to the LORD your God, and be obedient to his voice;

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