1 Thessalonians 2:14 Cross References - Living_Oracles

¹⁴ For you, brethren, became imitators of the congregations of God which are in Judea, in Christ Jesus; because you also have suffered like things from your own countrymen, even as they have from the Jews,

¹ And Saul was well pleased with his slaughter. And at that time there was a great persecution against the congregation in Jerusalem; and they were all dispersed through the regions of Judea, and Samaria, except the Apostles.

³ But Saul made havoc of the congregation, entering into houses, and dragging men and whom, whom he committed to prison.

¹ But Saul, still breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, came to the high priest,

¹³ Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many concerning this man, how much evil he has done to thy saints at Jerusalem;

³¹ Then the congregations though all Judea, and Galilee, and Samaria, being edified, had rest; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the admonition of the Holy Spirit, were multiplied.

¹⁹ Now, indeed, those who had been dispersed, on account of the distress which arose about Stephen, had traveled as far as Phenicia, and Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to none but Jews only.

¹ Now, about that time, Herod, the king, laid hands on some of the congregation, to afflict them. ² And he slew James, the brother of John, with the sword. ³ And as he saw that this was acceptable to the Jews, he went on to seize Peter also: and it was in the days of unleavened bread;

¹ And taking their journey through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica; where there was a synagogue of the Jews. ² And according to Paul's custom, he entered in among them, and discoursed to them for three Sabbaths from the scriptures; ³ opening them, and evidently showing that the Messiah ought to suffer, and to rise from the dead; and that this is the Messiah, even Jesus, whom I declare to you. ⁴ And some of them believed, and adhered to Paul and Silas; besides, a considerable number of the devout Greeks, and not a few of the principal women. ⁵ But the unbelieving Jews, filled with zeal, gathered together some mean and profligate fellows, and making a mob, threw the city into a tumult; and assaulting the house of Jason, endeavored to bring them out to the people. ⁶ But not finding them, they dragged Jason, and some of the brethren to the magistrates of the city, crying out, These men, that have turned the world upside down, are come hither, also; ⁷ and Jason has privately received them. And all these men act contrary to the decrees of Cesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus. ⁸ And they alarmed the multitude and the magistrates of the city, when they heard these things.

¹³ But as soon as some of the Jews of Thessalonica understood that the word of God was announced by Paul at Berea, they came thither, also, exciting the populace.

¹⁷ But as God has distributed to every one, and as the Lord has called every one, so let him walk; and so, in all the congregations, I ordain.

¹ Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the charity of God, which is given by the congregations of Macedonia; ² that in a great trial of affliction, the abundance of their joy, and their extreme poverty, superabounded to the riches of their liberality:

²² and I was personally unknown to the congregations of Judea which are in Christ.

¹ Paul, and Sylvanus, and Timothy, to the congregation of the Thessalonians, which is in God the Father, and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Favor to you, and peace from God our Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁶ And you became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having embraced the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit.

⁴ For even when we were with you, we foretold you that we were to be afflicted; which also happened as you know.

¹ Paul, and Sylvanus, and Timothy, to the congregation of the Thessalonians, which is in God, our Father, and in the Lord Jesus Christ:

⁴ so that we ourselves boast of you to the congregations of God, on account of your patience and faith in all your persecutions and afflictions, which you endure;

⁷ He, (who, in the days of his flesh, having, with loud cries, and with tears, offered up prayers and supplications to him who was able to save him from death, and was delivered from his fear,) ⁸ though being a Son, learned obedience by the things which he suffered;

³³ partly, indeed, whilst you were made a spectacle both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst you became companions of them who were so treated. ³⁴ For you also suffered with me in my bonds, and with joy sustained the spoiling of your goods, knowing within yourselves, that you have in heaven a better and a permanent substance.