1 Thessalonians 2:16

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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.

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Genesis 15:16

Zechariah 5:6

Matthew 23:32

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and when Peter came up to Jerusalem, those of the circumcision were contending with him,

And the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the first men of the city, and did raise persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and did put them out from their borders;

and when there was a purpose both of the nations and of the Jews with their rulers to use them despitefully, and to stone them,

And the unbelieving Jews, having been moved with envy, and having taken to them of the loungers certain evil men, and having made a crowd, were setting the city in an uproar; having assailed also the house of Jason, they were seeking them to bring them to the populace,

And Gallio being proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a rush with one accord upon Paul, and brought him unto the tribunal,

and when certain were hardened and were disbelieving, speaking evil of the way before the multitude, having departed from them, he did separate the disciples, every day reasoning in the school of a certain Tyrannus.

And, as the seven days were about to be fully ended, the Jews from Asia having beheld him in the temple, were stirring up all the multitude, and they laid hands upon him,

and he said unto me, Go, because to nations far off I will send thee.'

And I, brethren, if uncircumcision I yet preach, why yet am I persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been done away;

to me -- the less than the least of all the saints -- was given this grace, among the nations to proclaim good news -- the untraceable riches of the Christ,

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and the fourth generation doth turn back hither, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.'

And I say, 'What is it?' And he saith, 'This -- the ephah that is coming forth.' And he saith, 'This is their aspect in all the land.

and ye -- ye fill up the measure of your fathers.

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And I have recompensed to Babylon, And to all inhabitants of Chaldea, All the evil that they have done in Zion, Before your eyes -- an affirmation of Jehovah.

A sword ye have feared, And a sword I bring in against you, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

and the husbandmen having taken his servants, one they scourged, and one they killed, and one they stoned.

for there shall be then great tribulation, such as was not from the beginning of the world till now, no, nor may be.

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

but those my enemies, who did not wish me to reign over them, bring hither and slay before me.'

concerning sin indeed, because they do not believe in me;

and the unbelieving Jews did stir up and made evil the souls of the nations against the brethren;