1 Thessalonians 2:15

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:

Killed

Persecuted us

Amos 7:12

Acts 22:18

Please

Acts 12:3

1 Corinthians 10:5

Contrary

Esther 3:8

Luke 11:52

General references

Bible References

Killed

rejoice ye and be glad, because your reward is great in the heavens, for thus did they persecute the prophets who were before you.

and the husbandmen having taken his servants, one they scourged, and one they killed, and one they stoned.

So that ye testify to yourselves, that ye are sons of them who did murder the prophets;

and all the people answering said, 'His blood is upon us, and upon our children!'

Then do ye testify, and are well pleased with the works of your fathers, because they indeed killed them, and ye do build their tombs;

but it behoveth me to-day, and to-morrow, and the day following, to go on, because it is not possible for a prophet to perish out of Jerusalem.

this one, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, being given out, having taken by lawless hands, having crucified -- ye did slay;

and the Prince of the life ye did kill, whom God did raise out of the dead, of which we are witnesses;

be it known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye did crucify, whom God did raise out of the dead, in him hath this one stood by before you whole.

and the God of our fathers did raise up Jesus, whom ye slew, having hanged upon a tree;

which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed those who declared before about the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now ye betrayers and murderers have become,

Persecuted us

And Amaziah saith unto Amos, 'Seer, go flee for thee unto the land of Judah, and eat there bread, and there thou dost prophesy;

and I saw him saying to me, Haste and go forth in haste out of Jerusalem, because they will not receive thy testimony concerning me;

Please

and having seen that it is pleasing to the Jews, he added to lay hold of Peter also -- and they were the days of the unleavened food --

but in the most of them God was not well pleased, for they were strewn in the wilderness,

Contrary

And Haman saith to the king Ahasuerus, 'There is one people scattered and separated among the peoples, in all provinces of thy kingdom, and their laws are diverse from all people, and the laws of the king they are not doing, and for the king it is not profitable to suffer them;

'Woe to you, the lawyers, because ye took away the key of the knowledge; yourselves ye did not enter; and those coming in, ye did hinder.'

General references

A spring troubled, and a fountain corrupt, Is the righteous falling before the wicked.

And I have recompensed to Babylon, And to all inhabitants of Chaldea, All the evil that they have done in Zion, Before your eyes -- an affirmation of Jehovah.

A sword ye have feared, And a sword I bring in against you, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

and the husbandmen having taken his servants, one they scourged, and one they killed, and one they stoned.

added also this to all, that he shut up John in the prison.

but those my enemies, who did not wish me to reign over them, bring hither and slay before me.'

concerning sin indeed, because they do not believe in me;

and the unbelieving Jews did stir up and made evil the souls of the nations against the brethren;