1 Thessalonians 2:13-16
New American Standard Bible
13 For this reason we also constantly (A)thank God that when you received the (B)word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it (C)not as the word of mere men, but as what it really is, the word of God, (D)which also is at work in you who believe. 14 For you, brothers and sisters, became (E)imitators of (F)the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are (G)in Judea, for (H)you also endured the same sufferings at the hands of your own countrymen, (I)even as they did from the Jews, 15 (J)who both killed the Lord Jesus and (K)the prophets, and [a]drove us out. [b]They are not pleasing to God, [c]but hostile to all people, 16 (L)hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles (M)so that they may be saved; with the result that they always [d](N)reach the limit of their sins. But (O)wrath has come upon them [e]fully.
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- 1 Thessalonians 2:15 Or persecuted us
- 1 Thessalonians 2:15 Lit and
- 1 Thessalonians 2:15 Lit and
- 1 Thessalonians 2:16 Lit complete their
- 1 Thessalonians 2:16 Or forever; lit to the end
1 Thessalonians 2:13-16
Disciples’ Literal New Testament
And We Thank God You Accepted Our Message As God’s Word, Even Amidst Persecution
13 And for this[a] reason we are indeed[b] giving-thanks to God unceasingly: because having received the word of God heard from us[c], you accepted not the word of humans, but, as it truly is, the word of God, which also is at-work[d] in you, the ones believing. 14 For you became imitators, brothers, of the churches of God existing in Judea in Christ Jesus, because you also suffered the same things by your own countrymen as they also by the Jews— 15 the ones also[e] having killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and having driven us out, and not being pleasing to God, and being contrary[f] to all people, 16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles in order that they might be saved, so that they fill-up[g] the measure of their sins always. But the wrath[h] came[i] upon them to the uttermost[j].
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- 1 Thessalonians 2:13 ‘This reason’ looks forward to ‘because’. Or, if it looks backward, ‘And for this reason, we are indeed giving-thanks to God unceasingly that’.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:13 Or, also (along with you).
- 1 Thessalonians 2:13 Or, ‘having received from us the word heard from God’.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:13 Or, in operation.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:15 Or, both.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:15 Or, hostile, opposed.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:16 That is, these Jews fill fuller the measure of their sins at all times.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:16 That is, the hardening of their hearts and removal of the kingdom from them; or, the end-time wrath beginning with their hardening and looking toward the destruction of Jerusalem and the final wrath associated with the Second Coming.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:16 Or, arrived.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:16 That is, fully; or, continually; or, finally, at last.
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