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

Matthew 23:32

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Bible References

Forbidding

so, when Peter came up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party disputed with him,

But the Jews urged on the devout women of high rank, and the leading citizens, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of the district,

And when both the Gentiles and the Jews with their ruler made a hostile move to maltreat and to stone them,

But the Jews, moved with jealousy, called to their aid certain ill-favored and idle fellows, formed a mob, and began to set the town in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.

But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose against Paul, and brought him before the tribunal.

But when some grew hardened and disobedient, and spoke evil of the Way before the crowd, he left them, withdrew the disciples, and continued to hold discussions daily in the lecture-hall of Tyrannus.

But when the seven days were almost over, the Asiatic Jews caught sight of him in the temple, and began to stir up all the crowd, and laid hands on him, shouting.

"'Depart,' he said to me, 'for I will send you forth, far hence, to the Gentiles.'"

But I, brothers, if I "still preach circumcision," why am I still persecuted? Then surely the stumbling-block of the Cross has ceased to be an obstacle!

To me, who am less than the least of all saints, has this grace been given, that I should proclaim among the Gentiles the gospel of the unsearchable riches of Christ;

To fill

"Fill up then the measure of your fathers!

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And the vine-dressers seized his slaves, flogged one, killed another, and stoned a third.

for then shall be a time of great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never shall be again.

added yet this above them all that he shut up John in prison.

"'Howbeit these enemies of mine who were not willing for me to become their King, bring them here, and slay them in my presence.'"

of sin, because they do not believe in me;

But the disobedient Jews stirred up the souls of the Gentiles, and embittered them against them against the brothers.