For they themselves witness what kind of entrance we had to you, even how you turned from idols to God in order to serve the living and true God,

For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus. For you also have suffered these things by your own countrymen, even as they also by the Jews;

who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, also driving us out and they do not please God and being contrary to all men,

forbidding us to speak to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always; but the wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.

For when they shall say, Peace and safety! Then sudden destruction comes on them, as travail upon a woman with child. And they shall not escape.