1 Thessalonians 2:13-15

Tree of Life Version

¹³ For this reason, we also thank God constantly that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it truly is—the word of God, which does its work in you who believe. ¹⁴ For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of God’s communities in Messiah Yeshua that are in Judea—for you suffered the same things at the hands of your own countrymen as they did from the Judean leaders, ¹⁵ who killed both the Lord Yeshua and the prophets and drove us out.^[a] They are not pleasing to God and hostile to all people,