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1 Thessalonians 2:16

WEB

16forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.

KJV

16Forbidding 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.

BSB

16hindering us from telling the Gentiles how they may be saved. As a result, they continue to heap up their sins to full capacity; the utmost wrath has come upon them.

FBV

16trying to prevent us from speaking to the other nations[+] to prevent them from being saved. They're always sinning to the maximum extent, but for them full judgment has arrived!

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Extra References

Acts 17:13

13But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes.


Acts 14:19

19But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.


Matthew 23:32

32Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.


Mark 16:16

16He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.


Malachi 4:1

1“For behold, the day comes, burning like a furnace, when all the proud and all who work wickedness will be stubble. The day that comes will burn them up,” says the LORD of Armies, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.


Acts 14:5

5When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,


Matthew 21:41-44

41They told him, “He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers who will give him the fruit in its season.”

42Jesus said to them, Did you never read in the Scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes’?

43Therefore I tell you, God’s Kingdom will be taken away from you and will be given to a nation producing its fruit. 44He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust.”


2 Thessalonians 2:10

10and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.


Acts 13:50

50But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.


Galatians 5:11

11But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.