¹⁴ For you, brothers, became imitators of God’s churches in Christ Jesus that are in Judea,^(A) since you have also suffered^(B) the same things from people of your own country,^(C) just as they did from the Jews ¹⁵ who killed both the Lord Jesus^(D) and the prophets and persecuted us;^(E) they displease God and are hostile to everyone, ¹⁶ hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. As a result, they are always completing the number of their sins,^(F) and wrath has overtaken them at last.^[a]