1 Thessalonians 2:15

The Thessalonians' Response To Paul's Message

¹⁴ For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God in Judea which are in Christ Jesus; for you, also, have suffered the same things from your own countrymen, that they have suffered from the Jews, ¹⁵ who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and have persecuted us, and do not please God, and are opposed to all men, ¹⁶ forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, in order that they may fill up their sins at all times: but the wrath is coming upon them to the full.

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Matthew 5:12

Rejoice, and leap for joy; for great is your reward in heaven: for so did they persecute the prophets who were before you.

Acts 2:23

him, delivered up by the fixed purpose and foreknowledge of God, you took, and with wicked hands did crucify and slay:

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? They slew also those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you have now become the betrayers and murderers;

Matthew 23:31-35

So then you testify against yourselves, that you are the sons of those who killed the prophets.

Matthew 23:37

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest those who are sent to thee, how often have I desired to gather thy children together, as a bird gathers her young under her wings, and you refused.

Matthew 27:25

And all the people answered and said: His blood be upon us and upon our children.

Luke 11:48-53

Therefore you attest and approve the deeds of your fathers; for they indeed killed them, and you build their sepulchers.

Luke 13:33-34

But I must continue my journey to-day and to-morrow and the day following; for it is not possible that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.

Matthew 21:35-39

And the vine-dressers took his servants, and scourged one, and killed another, and stoned another.

Luke 24:20

and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.

Acts 3:15

and you slew the Author of life, whom God has 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 by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by him does this man stand before you in health.

Acts 5:30

The God of our fathers has raised up Jesus, whom you slew by hanging him on a tree.

Acts 12:3

And when he saw that it pleased the Jews, he apprehended Peter also. Those were the days of unleavened bread.

Acts 22:18-21

and saw him saying to me, Make haste, and depart quickly from Jerusalem, for they will not receive your testimony concerning me.

1 Corinthians 10:5

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