These persecutions will vindicate the justice of God's judgment, and will result in your being reckoned worthy of God's Kingdom, for the sake of which you are now afflicted;

Since God deems it just to inflict suffering upon those who are now inflicting suffering upon you,

Then he will 'inflict punishment upon those who refuse to know God, and upon those who turn a deaf ear' to the Good News of Jesus, our Lord.

And you know now what the restraining influence is which prevents his appearing before his appointed time.

For you know well that you ought to follow our example. When we were with you, our life was not ill-ordered,