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14 For you became imitators, brothers, of the churches of God existing in Judea in Christ Jesus, because you also suffered the same things by your own countrymen as they also by the Jews— 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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  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.

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. 1 Thessalonians 2:16 Or them fully