1 Thessalonians 2:16

¹⁴ For 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,

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,

hindering 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.

¹⁷ Brothers, although we were torn away from you for a short time (in person, not in heart), our desire to see you face to face was even more intense.

¹⁸ For we wanted to come to you—indeed I, Paul, tried again and again—but Satan obstructed us.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: hindering 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.
KJV: Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
WEB: forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.
ASV: forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always: but the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
DARBY: forbidding us to speak to the nations that they may be saved, that they may fill up their sins always: but wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.
BLB: forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles so that they might be saved, so as to fill up their sins always. Now the wrath has come upon them to the end.

ÅB: idet de hindrer oss fra å tale til hedningene, så de kan bli frelst, for at de alltid må fylle sine synders mål. Dog, vreden har endelig nådd dem!
OTB: hindrende oss fra å tale til hedningene slik at de kan bli frelst; med det resultat at de alltid når grensen for sine synder. Vreden har kommet over dem fullt ut.
B1930: idet de hindrer oss fra å tale til hedningene, så de kan bli frelst, forat de alltid må fylle sine synders mål. Dog, vreden har endelig nådd dem!

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Acts 17:13
But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that Paul was also proclaiming the word of God in Berea, they went there themselves to incite and agitate the crowds.
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Acts 14:19
Then some Jews arrived from Antioch and Iconium and won over the crowds. They stoned Paul and dragged him outside the city, presuming he was dead.
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Acts 14:5
But when the Gentiles and Jews, together with their rulers, set out to mistreat and stone them,
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Malachi 4:1
“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”
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Matthew 23:32
Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers.
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Mark 16:16
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
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Galatians 5:11
Now, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished.
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2 Thessalonians 2:10
and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.
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