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15 the ones also[a] having killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and having driven us out, and not being pleasing to God, and being contrary[b] to all people, 16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles in order that they might be saved, so that they fill-up[c] the measure of their sins always. But the wrath[d] came[e] upon them to the uttermost[f].

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17 And we, brothers, having been orphaned from you for a season of an hour in face, not in heart, were more eager[g] with great desire to see your face.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 2:15 Or, both.
  2. 1 Thessalonians 2:15 Or, hostile, opposed.
  3. 1 Thessalonians 2:16 That is, these Jews fill fuller the measure of their sins at all times.
  4. 1 Thessalonians 2:16 That is, the hardening of their hearts and removal of the kingdom from them; or, the end-time wrath beginning with their hardening and looking toward the destruction of Jerusalem and the final wrath associated with the Second Coming.
  5. 1 Thessalonians 2:16 Or, arrived.
  6. 1 Thessalonians 2:16 That is, fully; or, continually; or, finally, at last.
  7. 1 Thessalonians 2:17 Or, made more effort.

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