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 proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes.
• Acts 14:19But 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.
• Acts 14:5When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,
• Matt 23:32Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.
• Mark 16:16He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.
• Mal 4:1“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
• Matt 21:41–44They 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.”
• Acts 13:50But 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.
• Gal 5:11But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.
• Jas 5:1–6Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
• Acts 22:21–22“He said to me, ‘Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.’”
• 2 Th 2:10and 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.
• Gen 15:16In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.”
• 1 Tim 2:4who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.
• Acts 13:45But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.
• Mal 4:5Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
• Acts 18:12–13But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before 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 he goes, and takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than he is, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Even so will it be also to this evil generation.”
• Matt 3:7–10But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
• Matt 3:12His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”
• Matt 24:21–22for then there will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.
• Joel 2:30–31I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood, fire, and pillars of smoke.
• Matt 24:6You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren’t troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet.
• Eph 3:8To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
• Luke 19:42–44saying, “If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.
• Matt 22:6–7and the rest grabbed his servants, and treated them shamefully, and killed them.
• Acts 19:9But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.
• Zech 5:6–8I said, “What is it?” He said, “This is the ephah basket that is appearing.” He said moreover, “This is their appearance in all the land
• Acts 4:12There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”
• Isa 45:22“Look 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 completed, the Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the multitude and laid hands on him,
• Acts 11:2–3When Peter had come up to Jerusalem, those who were of the circumcision contended with him,
• Rev 22:11He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”
• Acts 14:2But the disbelieving Jews stirred up and embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the brothers.
• 1 Th 1:10and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead — Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.
• Luke 21:20–24“But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is at hand.
• Eph 3:13Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.
• Heb 10:27–30but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.
• Matt 24:14This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

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