^5 (A)But the Jews^{[a] (B)}were jealous, and taking ^(C)some wicked men of the rabble, they formed a mob, set the city in an uproar, and attacked the house of Jason, seeking to bring them out to the crowd.

^26 (A)Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

¹³ But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Berea also, they came there too, ^(A)agitating and stirring up the crowds.

¹⁴ For you, brothers, ^(A)became imitators of ^(B)the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For ^(C)you suffered the same things from your own countrymen ^(D)as they did from the Jews,^{[a] 15 (E)}who killed both the Lord Jesus and ^(F)the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and ^(G)oppose all mankind ^16 (H)by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved—so as always ^(I)to fill up the measure of their sins. But ^(J)wrath has come upon them at last!^[b]

²¹ envy,^[a] drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that ^(A)those who do^[b] such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

^21 (A)Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you; so do Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my kinsmen.

⁷ and Jason has received them, and they are all acting against ^(A)the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is ^(B)another king, Jesus.”

^2 (A)But the ^(B)unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against ^(C)the brothers.^[a]

³ for you are still of the flesh. For while there is ^(A)jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?