1 Thessalonians 2:15

The Thessalonians' Response To Paul's Message

¹⁴ For you, Brothers, began to follow the example of the Churches of God in Judea which are in union with Jesus Christ; you, in your turn, suffering at the hands of your fellow-citizens, in the same way as those Churches did at the hands of the Jews-- ¹⁵ The men who killed both the Lord Jesus and the Prophets, and persecuted us also. They do not try to please God, and they are enemies to all mankind, ¹⁶ For they would prevent us from speaking to the Gentiles with a view to their Salvation, and thus are always 'filling up the measure of their iniquity.' But the Wrath of God has come upon them to the full!

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Matthew 5:12

Be glad and rejoice, because your reward in Heaven will be great; for so men persecuted the Prophets who lived before you.

Acts 2:23

He, I say, in accordance with God's definite plan and with his previous knowledge, was betrayed, and you, by the hands of lawless men, nailed him to a cross and put him to death.

Acts 7:52

Which of the Prophets escaped persecution at their hands? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One; of whom you, in your turn, have now become the betrayers and murderers--

Matthew 23:31-35

By doing this you are furnishing evidence against yourselves that you are true children of the men who murdered the Prophets.

Matthew 23:37

Jerusalem! Jerusalem! She who slays the Prophets and stones the messengers sent to her--Oh, how often have I wished to gather your children round me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not came!

Matthew 27:25

And all the people answered: "His blood be on our heads and on our children's!"

Luke 11:48-53

You are actually witnesses to your ancestors' acts and show your approval of them, because, while they killed the Prophets, you build tombs for them.

Luke 13:33-34

But to-day and to-morrow and the day after I must go on my way, because it cannot be that a Prophet should meet his end outside Jerusalem.

Matthew 21:35-39

But the tenants seized his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.

Luke 24:20

And how the Chief Priests and our leading men gave him up to be sentenced to death, and afterwards crucified him.

Acts 3:15

The very Guide to Life you put to death! But God raised him from the dead--and of that we are ourselves witnesses.

Acts 4:10

Let me tell you all and all the people of Israel, that it is by the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified and whom God raised from the dead--it is, I say, by his Name that this man stands here before you lame no longer.

Acts 5:30

The God of our ancestors raised Jesus, whom you put to death by hanging him on a cross.

Acts 12:3

And, when he saw that the Jews were pleased with this, he proceeded to arrest Peter also. (This was during the Festival of the Unleavened Bread.)

Acts 22:18-21

And saw Jesus saying to me 'Make haste and leave Jerusalem at once, because they will not accept your testimony about me.'

1 Corinthians 10:5

Yet with most of them God was displeased; for they were 'struck down in the desert.'