1 Thessalonians 2:15 “who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets and drove us out…”

1 Thessalonians 2:15

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:

World English Bible

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,

American Standard Version

who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove out us, and please not God, and are contrary to all men;

Geneva Bible 1599

Who both killed the Lord Iesus and their owne Prophets, and haue persecuted vs away, and God they please not, and are contrary to all men,

Darby Translation

who have both slain the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and have driven us out by persecution, and do not please God, and [are] against all men,

Young's Literal Translation

who did both put to death the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and did persecute us, and God they are not pleasing, and to all men [are] contrary,

Bible in Basic English

Who put to death the Lord Jesus and the prophets, violently driving us out; who are unpleasing to God and against all men;

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Cross references

“killed”

Matthew 5:12 Acts 7:52 Acts 2:23 Matthew 23:31–35 Matthew 23:37 Matthew 27:25

Matthew 5:12 · BSB

Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you.

Acts 7:52 · BSB

Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—

Acts 2:23 · BSB

He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.

Matthew 23:31–35 · BSB

So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.

Matthew 23:37 · BSB

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

Matthew 27:25 · BSB

All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”

“persecuted us”

Acts 22:18–21 Amos 7:12

Acts 22:18–21 · BSB

and saw the Lord saying to me, ‘Hurry! Leave Jerusalem quickly, because the people here will not accept your testimony about Me.’

Amos 7:12 · BSB

And Amaziah said to Amos, “Go away, you seer! Flee to the land of Judah; earn your bread there and do your prophesying there.

“please”

Acts 12:3 1 Corinthians 10:5

Acts 12:3 · BSB

And seeing that this pleased the Jews, Herod proceeded to seize Peter during the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

1 Corinthians 10:5 · BSB

Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.

“contrary”

Esther 3:8 Luke 11:52 Luke 11:53

Esther 3:8 · BSB

Then Haman informed King Xerxes, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples of every province of your kingdom. Their laws are different from everyone else’s, and they do not obey the king’s laws…

Luke 11:52 · BSB

Woe to you experts in the law! For you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering.”

Luke 11:53 · BSB

As Jesus went on from there, the scribes and Pharisees began to oppose Him bitterly and to ply Him with questions about many things,

Also

Luke 24:20

Luke 24:20 · BSB

Our chief priests and rulers delivered Him up to the sentence of death, and they crucified Him.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

14For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Judea that are in Christ Jesus. You suffered from your own countrymen the very things they suffered from the Jews,

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.

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