1 Thessalonians 2:15

The Thessalonians' Response To Paul's Message

¹⁴ For ye, brothers, became imitators of the congregations of God, which are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because ye also suffered the same things by your own countrymen, just as also they by the Jews. ¹⁵ The men who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and who persecuted us, and are not pleasing to God, and are contrary to all men. ¹⁶ Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles so that they might be saved, in order to fill up their sins always. But wrath came upon them finally.

Old Testament

Pleasing to God

Put to Death

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Thessalonica

Matthew 5:12

Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, because your reward is great in the heavens, for so they persecuted the prophets before you.

Acts 2:23

this man, having been designated (by the purpose and foreknowledge of God) a man delivered up, ye, having taken by lawless hands, killed, having crucified,

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold about the coming of the Righteous man, of whom ye now have become betrayers and murderers,

Esther 3:8

And Haman said to king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of thy kingdom, and their laws are diverse from [those of] every people, nor do they keep the king's

Matthew 23:31-35

So then ye testify to yourselves that ye are sons of those who murdered the prophets.

Matthew 23:37

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who have been sent to her. How often I wanted to gathered thy children together the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and ye would not.

Matthew 27:25

And having answered, all the people said, His blood be on us, and on our children.

Luke 11:48-53

Consequently, ye testify and approve the works of your fathers, because they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchers.

Luke 13:33-34

Nevertheless it is necessary for me to go today and tomorrow and the following, because it is not possible for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem.

Amos 7:12

Also Amaziah said to Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thou away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there.

Matthew 21:35-39

And the farmers having taken his bondmen, they beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.

Luke 24:20

and how our chief priests and rulers delivered him up for condemnation of death, and crucified him.

Acts 3:15

And ye killed the Pathfinder of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.

Acts 4:10

be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by this, this man stands here before you healthy.

Acts 5:30

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye murdered, having hung on a tree.

Acts 12:3

And after seeing that it was pleasing the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also (and those were the days of unleavened bread),

Acts 22:18-21

And I saw him saying to me, Hurry and depart in haste out of Jerusalem, because they will not accept thy testimony about me.

1 Corinthians 10:5

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