1 Thessalonians 2:16

New Century Version

They try to stop us from teaching those who are not Jews so they may be saved. By doing this, they are increasing their sins to the limit. The anger of God has come to them at last.

Cross References

Genesis 15:16

After your great-great-grandchildren are born, your people will come to this land again. It will take that long, because I am not yet going to punish the Amorites for their evil behavior.”

Isaiah 45:22

“All people everywhere, follow me and be saved. I am God. There is no other God.

Daniel 8:23

“When the end comes near for those kingdoms, a bold and cruel king who tells lies will come. This will happen when many people have turned against God.

Malachi 4:1

“There is a day coming that will burn like a hot furnace, and all the proud and evil people will be like straw. On that day they will be completely burned up so that not a root or branch will be left,” says the Lord All-Powerful.

Malachi 4:5

“But I will send you Elijah the prophet before that great and terrifying day of the Lord’s judging.

Matthew 12:45

Then the evil spirit goes out and brings seven other spirits even more evil than it is, and they go in and live there. So the person has even more trouble than before. It is the same way with the evil people who live today.”

Matthew 23:32

And you will complete the sin that your ancestors started.

Matthew 24:14

The Good News about God’s kingdom will be preached in all the world, to every nation. Then the end will come.

Matthew 24:6

You will hear about wars and stories of wars that are coming, but don’t be afraid. These things must happen before the end comes.

Matthew 3:12

He will come ready to clean the grain, separating the good grain from the chaff. He will put the good part of the grain into his barn, but he will burn the chaff with a fire that cannot be put out.”

Mark 16:16

Anyone who believes and is baptized will be saved, but anyone who does not believe will be punished.

Acts 13:45

Seeing the crowd, the Jewish people became very jealous and said insulting things and argued against what Paul said.

Acts 13:50

But the Jewish people stirred up some of the important religious women and the leaders of the city. They started trouble against Paul and Barnabas and forced them out of their area.

Acts 14:19

Then some evil people came from Antioch and Iconium and persuaded the people to turn against Paul. So they threw stones at him and dragged him out of town, thinking they had killed him.

Acts 14:2

But some people who did not believe excited the others and turned them against the believers.

Acts 14:5

Some who were not Jews, some Jews, and some of their rulers wanted to mistreat Paul and Barnabas and to stone them to death.

Acts 17:13

But the people in Thessalonica learned that Paul was preaching the word of God in Berea, too. So they came there, upsetting the people and making trouble.

Acts 19:9

But some of them became stubborn. They refused to believe and said evil things about the Way of Jesus before all the people. So Paul left them, and taking the followers with him, he went to the school of a man named Tyrannus. There Paul talked with people every day

Acts 21:21

They have heard about your teaching, that you tell our people who live among the nations to leave the law of Moses. They have heard that you tell them not to circumcise their children and not to obey customs.

Acts 23:12

In the morning some evil people made a plan to kill Paul, and they took an oath not to eat or drink anything until they had killed him.

Acts 24:9

The others agreed and said that all of this was true.

Acts 25:2

There the leading priests and the important leaders made charges against Paul before Festus.

Acts 25:7

when Paul came into the room. The people who had come from Jerusalem stood around him, making serious charges against him, which they could not prove.

Acts 4:12

Jesus is the only One who can save people. No one else in the world is able to save us.”

Acts 9:23

After many days, they made plans to kill Saul.

1 Corinthians 10:33

just as I, also, try to please everybody in every way. I am not trying to do what is good for me but what is good for most people so they can be saved.

Galatians 5:11

My brothers and sisters, I do not teach that a man must be circumcised. If I teach circumcision, why am I still being attacked? If I still taught circumcision, my preaching about the cross would not be a problem.

Ephesians 3:13

So I ask you not to become discouraged because of the sufferings I am having for you. My sufferings are for your glory.

Ephesians 3:8

I am the least important of all God’s people, but God gave me this gift—to tell those who are not Jews the Good News about the riches of Christ, which are too great to understand fully.

1 Thessalonians 1:10

And you wait for God’s Son, whom God raised from the dead, to come from heaven. He is Jesus, who saves us from God’s angry judgment that is sure to come.

2 Thessalonians 2:10

He will use every kind of evil to trick those who are lost. They will die, because they refused to love the truth. (If they loved the truth, they would be saved.)

1 Timothy 2:4

who wants all people to be saved and to know the truth.

Hebrews 6:8

Other people are like land that grows thorns and weeds and is worthless. It is about to be cursed by God and will be destroyed by fire.

Revelation 22:11

Let whoever is doing evil continue to do evil. Let whoever is unclean continue to be unclean. Let whoever is doing right continue to do right. Let whoever is holy continue to be holy.”