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

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Genesis 15:16

Zechariah 5:6

Matthew 23:32

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Bible References

Forbidding

So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers took issue with him,

But the Jews incited the God-fearing women of high social standing and the prominent men of the city, stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their region.

When both the Gentiles and the Jews (together with their rulers) made an attempt to mistreat them and stone them,

But the Jews became jealous, and gathering together some worthless men from the rabble in the marketplace, they formed a mob and set the city in an uproar. They attacked Jason's house, trying to find Paul and Silas to bring them out to the assembly.

Now while Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews attacked Paul together and brought him before the judgment seat,

But when some were stubborn and refused to believe, reviling the Way before the congregation, he left them and took the disciples with him, addressing them every day in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.

When the seven days were almost over, the Jews from the province of Asia who had seen him in the temple area stirred up the whole crowd and seized him,

Then he said to me, 'Go, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles.'"

Now, brothers and sisters, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.

To me -- less than the least of all the saints -- this grace was given, to proclaim to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ

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In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit."

I asked, "What is it?" And he replied, "It is a basket for measuring grain that is moving away from here." Moreover, he said, "This is their 'eye' throughout all the earth."

Fill up then the measure of your ancestors!

General references

"But I will repay Babylon and all who live in Babylonia for all the wicked things they did in Zion right before the eyes of you Judeans," says the Lord.

You fear the sword, so the sword I will bring against you,' declares the sovereign Lord.

But the tenants seized his slaves, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

For then there will be great suffering unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the world until now, or ever will happen.

Herod added this to them all: He locked up John in prison.

But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to be their king, bring them here and slaughter them in front of me!'"

concerning sin, because they do not believe in me;

But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.