¹⁴For ye, brethren, ^obecame followers of ^pthe churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ^qye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, ^reven as they have of the Jews: ¹⁵^sWho both killed the Lord Jesus, and ^ttheir own prophets, and have ^||persecuted us; and ^uthey please not God, and ^ware contrary to all men: ¹⁶^xForbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, ^yto fill up their sins alway: for ^zthe wrath ^ais come upon them ^bto the uttermost.

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Footnotes

oComp. ch. 1:6.
p Gal. 1:22. See 1 Cor. 11:16.
q Acts 17:5. ch. 3:4. 2 Thess. 1:4, 5.
tSee Matt. 5:12. So Matt. 21:35. Acts 7:52.
||Or, chased us out. Luke 11:49 (Gk.).
u Rom. 8:8. See ch. 4:1.
wComp. Esth. 3:8.
y Gen. 15:16. So 2 Macc. 6:14. Matt. 23:32.
zSee ch. 5:9.
aSee Matt. 12:28.
b Judith 7:30. & 14:13. Song 11 in the Gk. So Wisd. 19:1. Comp Wisd. 12:27.

Cross references

r Heb. 10:32–34.
s Acts 2:23. & 3:15. & 5:30. & 7:52.
x Acts 13:45, 50. & 14:4, 19. & 17:5, 13. & 18:12. & 19:33. & 22:21, 22.

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews, who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved—so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them at last!

NIVNew International Version (2011)

For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of God’s churches in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus: You suffered from your own people the same things those churches suffered from the Jews who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and also drove us out. They displease God and are hostile to everyone in their effort to keep us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. In this way they always heap up their sins to the limit. The wrath of God has come upon them at last.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of God’s churches in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, since you have also suffered the same things from people of your own country, just as they did from the Jews who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and persecuted us. They displease God and are hostile to everyone, by keeping us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. As a result, they are constantly filling up their sins to the limit, and wrath has overtaken them at last.

NLTNew Living Translation

And then, dear brothers and sisters, you suffered persecution from your own countrymen. In this way, you imitated the believers in God’s churches in Judea who, because of their belief in Christ Jesus, suffered from their own people, the Jews. For some of the Jews killed the prophets, and some even killed the Lord Jesus. Now they have persecuted us, too. They fail to please God and work against all humanity as they try to keep us from preaching the Good News of salvation to the Gentiles. By doing this, they continue to pile up their sins. But the anger of God has caught up with them at last.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

For you became imitators, brothers, of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because you also suffered the same things at the hands of your own people, just as they themselves did also at the hands of the Jews, who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and who persecuted us, and who are not pleasing to God and are opposed to all people, hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles in order that they may be saved, so that they always fill up their sins. But wrath has come upon them to the end.