1 Thessalonians 2:16

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 had come up to Jerusalem, those of the circumcision contended with him,

But the Jews stirred up the devout and honorable women, and the chief ones of the city, and raised a persecution against Paul and Barnabas. And they threw them out of their borders.

And when there was an assault made by both the nations and the Jews, with their rulers, in order to insult and to stone them,

But the disobeying Jews becoming jealous, and having taken aside some wicked men of the market-loafers, and gathering a crowd, they set all the city in an uproar. And coming on the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the mob.

But Gallio being pro-consul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rushed against Paul and brought him to the judgment seat,

But when some were hardened and did not believe, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of one Tyrannus.

And when the seven days were about to be completed, the Jews who were from Asia, having seen him in the temple, stirred up all the crowd and laid hands on him,

And He said to me, Go, for I will send you far away to the nations.

And I, brothers, if I yet proclaim circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the offense of the Cross has ceased.

This grace is given to me (who am less than the least of all saints) to preach the gospel of the unsearchable riches of Christ among the nations,

To fill

But in the fourth generation they shall come here 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 goes forth. And he said, This is their form in all the earth.

and you fill up the measure of your fathers.

General references

And I will give to Babylon, and to all the people of Chaldea, all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, says Jehovah.

You have feared the sword, and I will bring a sword on you, says the Lord Jehovah.

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

for then shall be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world to this time; no, nor ever shall be.

added still this above all, that he even shut John up in prison.

But those who are my enemies, who did not desire that I should reign over them, bring them here and slay them before me.

Concerning sin, because they do not believe on Me;

But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the nations and made them evil-hearted against the brothers.