1 Thessalonians 2:16

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Summary

Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

Forbidding

To fill

Genesis 15:16

Zechariah 5:6

Matthew 23:32

General references

Bible References

Forbidding

and when Peter went up to Jerusalem, they of the circumcision contended with him,

But the Jews excited the women of the upper classes who were worshippers, and the first people of the city, and raised a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them out of their coasts.

And when an assault was making, both of those of the nations and the Jews with their rulers, to use them ill and stone them,

But the Jews having been stirred up to jealousy, and taken to themselves certain wicked men of the lowest rabble, and having got a crowd together, set the city in confusion; and having beset the house of Jason sought to bring them out to the people;

But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one consent rose against Paul and led him to the judgment-seat,

But when some were hardened and disbelieved, speaking evil of the way before the multitude, he left them and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.

And when the seven days were nearly completed, the Jews from Asia, having seen him in the temple, set all the crowd in a tumult, and laid hands upon him,

And he said to me, Go, for I will send thee to the nations afar off.

But I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why am I yet persecuted? Then the scandal of the cross has been done away.

To me, less than the least of all saints, has this grace been given, to announce among the nations the glad tidings of the unsearchable riches of the Christ,

To fill

And in the fourth generation they shall come hither again; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

And I said, What is it? And he said, This is the ephah that goeth forth. And he said, This is their resemblance in all the land.

and ye, fill ye up the measure of your fathers.

General references

And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea, in your sight, all their evil which they have done in Zion, saith Jehovah.

Ye have feared the sword, and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord Jehovah.

And the husbandmen took his bondmen, and beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

for then shall there be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, nor ever shall be;

added this also to all the rest, that he shut up John in prison.

Moreover those mine enemies, who would not have me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them before me.

of sin, because they do not believe on me;

But the Jews who did not believe stirred up the minds of those of the nations and made them evil-affected against the brethren.