1 Thessalonians 2:13-16

Revised Geneva Translation

¹³ For this reason also, we thank God unceasingly that when you received the word of God (which you heard from us) you did not receive it as the word of man, but as it really is - the word of God - which also works in you who believe.

¹⁴ For brothers, you have become followers of the churches of God (which in Judea are in Christ Jesus) because you have also suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they have from the Judeans,

¹⁵ who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own Prophets and have driven us out. And they do not please God and are contrary to all mankind

¹⁶ and forbid us to preach to the Gentiles (so that they might be saved), always fulfilling their sins. But wrath has come upon them to the utmost.