1 Thessalonians 2:15

The Thessalonians' Response To Paul's Message

¹⁴ For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea, in Christ Jesus: for ye suffered the same things also yourselves from your own countrymen, as they too have of the Jews; ¹⁵ who both murdered the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us, and please not God, and are in opposition to all mankind; ¹⁶ forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles, that they might be saved, to fill up the measure of their iniquities always: but wrath is coming upon them to the extremity.

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Matthew 5:12

Rejoice and exult; for plenteous is your reward in the heavens: for just so they persecuted the prophets who went before you.

Acts 2:23

him, by the destined counsel and foreknowledge of God delivered up, ye have seized, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they killed those who before published the tidings of the coming of that Righteous Person; of whom ye have now been the betrayers and murderers:

Matthew 23:31-35

Wherefore ye bear a testimony to yourselves, that ye are the children of those who killed the prophets.

Matthew 23:37

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets, and stonest those who were sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children to me, as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not?

Matthew 27:25

Then all the people answering said, His blood be on us, and on our children.

Luke 11:48-53

Ye do indeed bear witness to, and with pleasure concur in your fathers' deeds; for they truly killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.

Luke 13:33-34

But I must go on to-day and to-morrow, and the day following: for it is impossible that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.

Matthew 21:35-39

And the husbandmen took his servants, one they beat, and another they killed, and a third they stoned.

Luke 24:20

and how our chief priests and rulers delivered him up to a sentence of death, and crucified him.

Acts 3:15

but ye slew the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead: of which we are witnesses.

Acts 4:10

be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarean, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by him doth this man stand here sound in your presence.

Acts 5:30

The God of our fathers hath raised up Jesus, whom ye had killed, suspending him on a tree.

Acts 12:3

And seeing how agreeable this was to the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.)

Acts 22:18-21

and beheld him saying to me, Make haste, and depart quickly from Jerusalem: for they will not receive thy testimony of me.

1 Corinthians 10:5

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