Thematic Bible: Persecutions of


Thematic Bible




On the contrary, after we had previously suffered, and we were treated outrageously in Philippi, as you know, we were emboldened by our God to speak the gospel of God to you in spite of great opposition.


But they kept ridiculing God’s messengers, despising His words, and scoffing at His prophets, until the Lord’s wrath was so stirred up against His people that there was no remedy.

But you made the Nazirites drink wine
and commanded the prophets,
“Do not prophesy.”


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