1 Thessalonians 2:13-16 - The Thessalonians' Response To Paul's Message
13 We thank God constantly for this too, that when you received the word of the divine message from us, you took it not as a human word but for what it really is, the word of God. It proves effective in you believers, 14 for you have started, my brothers, to copy the churches of God in Christ Jesus throughout Judaea; you have suffered from your compatriots just as they have suffered from the Jews, 15 who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, who harassed ourselves, who offend God and oppose all men 16 by hindering us from speaking words of salvation to the Gentiles. So they would fill up the measure of their sins to the last drop! But the Wrath is on them to the bitter end!