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1 Thessalonians 2:14-16
International Children’s Bible
1 Thessalonians 2:14-16
International Children’s Bible
14 Brothers, you have been like God’s churches in Christ that are in Judea.[a] God’s people suffered bad things from the other Jews there. And you suffered the same bad things from the people of your own country. 15 Those Jews killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets. And they forced us to leave that country. They do not please God. They are against all people. 16 They try to stop us from teaching the non-Jews so that they may be saved. But those Jews are adding more and more sins to the sins they already have. The anger of God has come to them at last.
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- 2:14 Judea The Jewish land where Jesus lived and taught and where the church first began.
1 Thessalonians 2:14-16
New International Version
1 Thessalonians 2:14-16
New International Version
14 For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators(A) of God’s churches in Judea,(B) which are in Christ Jesus: You suffered from your own people(C) the same things those churches suffered from the Jews 15 who killed the Lord Jesus(D) and the prophets(E) and also drove us out. They displease God and are hostile to everyone 16 in their effort to keep us from speaking to the Gentiles(F) so that they may be saved. In this way they always heap up their sins to the limit.(G) The wrath of God has come upon them at last.[a]
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- 1 Thessalonians 2:16 Or them fully
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