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 was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended with him,

But the Jews urged on the devout women of honorable estate, and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them out of their borders.

And when there was made an onset both of the Gentiles and of the Jews with their rulers, to treat them shamefully and to stone them,

But the Jews, being moved with jealousy, took unto them certain vile fellows of the rabble, and gathering a crowd, set the city on an uproar; and assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them forth to the people.

But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment-seat,

But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.

And when the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the multitude and laid hands on him,

And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee forth far hence unto the Gentiles.

But I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been done away.

Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach unto the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;

To fill

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

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

Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

General references

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

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

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

for then shall be great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever shall be.

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

But these mine enemies, that would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.

of sin, because they believe not on me;

But the Jews that were disobedient stirred up the souls of the Gentiles, and made them evil affected against the brethren.