1 Thessalonians 2:14-16

Paul's Ministry to the Thessalonians

¹⁴ For you, brothers, _n became imitators of _o the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For _p you suffered the same things from your own countrymen _q as they did from the Jews, ¹⁵ _r who killed both the Lord Jesus and _s the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and _t oppose all mankind ¹⁶ _u by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved - so as always _v to fill up the measure of their sins. But _w God's wrath has come upon them at last! ₁

1. Cross References
   1 Thessalonians 1:6
   And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit.
   
2. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 7:17
   Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches.
   
3. Cross References
   1 Thessalonians 3:4
   For when we were with you, we kept telling you beforehand that we were to suffer affliction, just as it has come to pass, and just as you know.
   Acts 17:5
   But the Jews were jealous, and taking some wicked men of the rabble, they formed a mob, set the city in an uproar, and attacked the house of Jason, seeking to bring them out to the crowd.
   2 Thessalonians 1:4 - 5
   Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring.
   
4. Cross References
   Hebrews 10:33 - 34
   Sometimes being publicly exposed to reproach and affliction, and sometimes being partners with those so treated.
   
5. Cross References
   Luke 24:20
   And how our chief priests and rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.
   
6. Cross References
   Jeremiah 2:30
   In vain have I struck your children; they took no correction; your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.
   Matthew 23:29 - 34
   Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous.
   Matthew 5:12
   Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
   
7. Cross References
   Esther 3:8
   Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom. Their laws are different from those of every other people, and they do not keep the king's laws, so that it is not to the king's profit to tolerate them.
   
8. Cross References
   Acts 13:45
   But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were fil...
   Acts 13:50
   But the Jews incited the devout women of high s...
   Acts 14:2
   But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentile...
   Acts 14:19
   But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and hav...
   Acts 17:5
   But the Jews were jealous, and taking some wick...
   Acts 17:13
   But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned tha...
   Acts 18:12
   But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Je...
   Acts 22:21 - 22
   And he said to me, 'Go, for I will send you far...
   
9. Cross References
   Genesis 15:16
   And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.
   
10. Cross References
    1 Thessalonians 1:10
    And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.