1 Thessalonians 2:13-16

Christian Standard Bible

Reception and Opposition to the Message

¹³ This is why we constantly thank God, because when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you welcomed it not as a human message, but as it truly is,^(A) the word of God,^(B) which also works effectively in you who believe. ¹⁴ For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of God’s churches in Christ Jesus that are in Judea,^(C) since you have also suffered^(D) the same things from people of your own country,^(E) just as they did from the Jews ¹⁵ who killed the Lord Jesus^(F) and the prophets and persecuted us.^(G) They displease God and are hostile to everyone, ¹⁶ by keeping us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. As a result, they are constantly filling up their sins to the limit,^(H) and wrath has overtaken them at last.^[a]