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 of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred up the people.
• Acts 14:19And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.
• Acts 14:5And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles, and also of the Jews with their rulers, to use them despitefully, and to stone them,
• Matt 23:32Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
• Mark 16:16He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
• Mal 4:1For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
• Matt 21:41–44They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.
• Acts 13:50But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.
• Gal 5:11And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased.
• Jas 5:1–6Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
• Acts 22:21–22And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles.
• 2 Th 2:10And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
• Gen 15:16But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
• 1 Tim 2:4Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
• Acts 13:45But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
• Mal 4:5Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
• Acts 18:12–13And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat,
• Luke 11:50–51That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;
• Matt 12:45Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.
• Matt 3:7–10But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
• Matt 3:12Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
• Matt 24:21–22For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
• Joel 2:30–31And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
• Matt 24:6And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
• Eph 3:8Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
• Luke 19:42–44Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
• Matt 22:6–7And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.
• Acts 19:9But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.
• Zech 5:6–8And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth.
• Acts 4:12Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
• Isa 45:22Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
• Acts 21:27–31And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him,
• Acts 11:2–3And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended with him,
• Rev 22:11He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
• Acts 14:2But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren.
• 1 Th 1:10And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
• Luke 21:20–24And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
• Eph 3:13Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
• Heb 10:27–30But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
• Matt 24:14And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

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