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

General references

Bible References

Forbidding

But, when Peter went up to Jerusalem, those who were converts from Judaism began to attack him,

But the Jews incited the women of position who worshiped with them, and the leading men of the town, and started a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their neighborhood.

And, when there was an attempt on the part of both Gentiles and Jews, with their leading men, to resort to violence and to stone them,

But the Jews, becoming jealous, engaged some worthless fellows from the streets, and, getting a mob together, kept the city in an uproar. They attacked Jason's house, with the intention of bringing Paul and Silas before the Popular Assembly;

While Gallio was governor of Greece, the Jews made a combined attack on Paul, and brought him before the Governor's Bench,

Some of them, however, hardened their hears and refused to believe, denouncing the Cause before the people. So Paul left them and withdrew his disciples, and gave daily addresses in the lecture-hall of Tyrannus.

But, just as the seven days were drawing to a close, the Jews from Roman Asia caught sight of Paul in the Temple, and caused great excitement among all the people present, by seizing Paul and shouting:

But Jesus said to me 'Go; for I will send you to the Gentiles far away'."

If I, Brothers, am still proclaiming circumcision, why am I still persecuted? It seems that the Cross has ceased to be an obstacle!

Yes, to me, who am less than the least of all Christ's People, was this charge entrusted!--to tell the Gentiles the Good News of the boundless wealth to be found in the Christ,

To fill

Fill up the measure of your ancestor's guilt.

General references

But the tenants seized his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.

for that will be 'a time of great distress, the like of which has not occurred from the beginning of the world down to the present time'--no, nor ever will again.

Crowned them all by shutting John up in prison.

But as for my enemies, these men who would not have me as their King, bring them here and put them to death in my presence.'"

As to Sin, for men do not believe in me;

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