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But the Jews became jealous, and with the help of some ruffians in the marketplaces they formed a mob and set the city in an uproar. While they were searching for Paul and Silas to bring them out to the assembly, they attacked Jason’s house.(A)

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But other Jews were jealous; so they rounded up some bad characters from the marketplace, formed a mob and started a riot in the city.(A) They rushed to Jason’s(B) house in search of Paul and Silas in order to bring them out to the crowd.[a]

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  1. Acts 17:5 Or the assembly of the people

But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.

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13 But when the Jews of Thessalonica learned that the word of God had been proclaimed by Paul in Beroea as well, they came there, too, to stir up and incite the crowds.

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13 But when the Jews in Thessalonica learned that Paul was preaching the word of God at Berea,(A) some of them went there too, agitating the crowds and stirring them up.

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13 But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred up the people.

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21 Timothy, my coworker, greets you; so do Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my fellow Israelites.(A)

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21 Timothy,(A) my co-worker, sends his greetings to you, as do Lucius,(B) Jason(C) and Sosipater, my fellow Jews.(D)

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21 Timotheus my workfellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.

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and Jason has entertained them as guests. They are all acting contrary to the decrees of the emperor, saying that there is another king named Jesus.”(A)

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and Jason has welcomed them into his house. They are all defying Caesar’s decrees, saying that there is another king, one called Jesus.”(A)

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Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus.

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They gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the temple of Baal-berith with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless fellows who followed him.(A)

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They gave him seventy shekels[a] of silver from the temple of Baal-Berith,(A) and Abimelek used it to hire reckless scoundrels,(B) who became his followers.

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  1. Judges 9:4 That is, about 1 3/4 pounds or about 800 grams

And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baalberith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons, which followed him.

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Or do you suppose that the scripture speaks to no purpose? Does the spirit that God caused to dwell[a] in us desire envy?(A)

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  1. 4.5 Other ancient authorities read the spirit that dwells

Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us[a]?(A)

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  1. James 4:5 Or that the spirit he caused to dwell in us envies intensely; or that the Spirit he caused to dwell in us longs jealously

Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

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14 For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, for you suffered the same things from your own compatriots as they did from the Jews(A) 15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets[a] and drove us out; they displease God and oppose everyone(B) 16 by hindering us from speaking to the gentiles so that they may be saved. Thus they have constantly been filling up the measure of their sins, but wrath[b] has overtaken them at last.[c](C)

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  1. 2.15 Other ancient authorities read their own prophets
  2. 2.16 Other ancient authorities read God’s wrath
  3. 2.16 Or completely or forever

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

14 For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:

15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:

16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

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26 Let us not become conceited, competing against one another, envying one another.

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26 Let us not become conceited,(A) provoking and envying each other.

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26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

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21 envy,[a] drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I am warning you, as I warned you before: those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.(A)

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  1. 5.21 Other ancient authorities add murder

21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like.(A) I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.(B)

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21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

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