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16 because they hinder us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. Thus they constantly fill up their measure of sins,[a] but wrath[b] has come upon them completely.[c]

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  1. 1 Thessalonians 2:16 tn Grk “to fill up their sins always.”
  2. 1 Thessalonians 2:16 tc The Western text (D F G 629 latt) adds τοῦ θεοῦ (tou theou) to ὀργή (orgē) to read “the wrath of God,” in emulation of the normal Pauline idiom (cf., e.g., Rom 1:18; Eph 5:6; Col 3:6) and, most likely, to clarify which wrath is in view (since ὀργή is articular).tn Or “the wrath,” possibly referring back to the mention of wrath in 1:10.
  3. 1 Thessalonians 2:16 tn Or “at last.”