1 Thessalonians 2:16

By trying to stop the gospel going to the Gentiles, opponents heaped up their guilt, and judgment was overtaking them. Resisting God's saving plan brings serious consequences.

Cross-references · 40

• Acts 17:13But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that Paul was also proclaiming the word of God in Berea, they went there themselves to incite and agitate the crowds.
• Acts 14:19Then some Jews arrived from Antioch and Iconium and won over the crowds. They stoned Paul and dragged him outside the city, presuming he was dead.
• Acts 14:5But when the Gentiles and Jews, together with their rulers, set out to mistreat and stone them,
• Matt 23:32Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers.
• Mark 16:16Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
• Mal 4:1“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”
• Matt 21:41–44“He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and will rent out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his share of the fruit at harvest time.”
• Acts 13:50The Jews, however, incited the religious women of prominence and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and drove them out of their district.
• Gal 5:11Now, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished.
• Jas 5:1–6Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
• Acts 22:21–22Then He said to me, ‘Go! I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”
• 2 Th 2:10and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.
• Gen 15:16In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
• 1 Tim 2:4who wants everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
• Acts 13:45But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they blasphemously contradicted what Paul was saying.
• Mal 4:5Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD.
• Acts 18:12–13While Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews coordinated an attack on Paul and brought him before the judgment seat.
• Luke 11:50–51As a result, this generation will be charged with the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the foundation of the world,
• Matt 12:45Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and dwell there; and the final plight of that man is worse than the first. So will it be with this wicked generation.”
• Matt 3:7–10But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
• Matt 3:12His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
• Matt 24:21–22For at that time there will be great tribulation, unmatched from the beginning of the world until now, and never to be seen again.
• Joel 2:30–31I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.
• Matt 24:6You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. These things must happen, but the end is still to come.
• Eph 3:8Though I am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
• Luke 19:42–44and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes.
• Matt 22:6–7The rest seized his servants, mistreated them, and killed them.
• Acts 19:9But when some of them stubbornly refused to believe and publicly maligned the Way, Paul took his disciples and left the synagogue to conduct daily discussions in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.
• Zech 5:6–8“What is it?” I asked. And he replied, “A measuring basket is going forth.” Then he continued, “This is their iniquity in all the land.”
• Acts 4:12Salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”
• Isa 45:22Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
• Acts 21:27–31When the seven days were almost over, some Jews from the province of Asia saw Paul at the temple. They stirred up the whole crowd and seized him,
• Acts 11:2–3So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers took issue with him
• Rev 22:11Let the unrighteous continue to be unrighteous, and the vile continue to be vile; let the righteous continue to practice righteousness, and the holy continue to be holy.”
• Acts 14:2But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.
• 1 Th 1:10and to await His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead—Jesus our deliverer from the coming wrath.
• Luke 21:20–24But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that her desolation is near.
• Eph 3:13So I ask you not to be discouraged because of my sufferings for you, which are your glory.
• Heb 10:27–30but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume all adversaries.
• Matt 24:14And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

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