1 Thes 2:16 Cross References

1 Thessalonians 2:16

16: by trying to keep us from preaching the Good News to the Gentiles, for fear some might be saved. By doing this, they continue to pile up their sins. But the anger of God has caught up with them at last.

Acts 17:13

  1. But when some Jews in Thessalonica learned that Paul was preaching the word of God in Berea, they went there and stirred up trouble.

Acts 14:19

  1. Now some Jews arrived from Antioch and Iconium and turned the crowds into a murderous mob. They stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, apparently dead.

2 Thessalonians 2:10

  1. He will use every kind of wicked deception to fool those who are on their way to destruction because they refuse to believe the truth that would save them.

Acts 13:50

  1. Then the Jewish leaders stirred up both the influential religious women and the leaders of the city, and they incited a mob against Paul and Barnabas and ran them out of town.

Acts 22:21

  1. "But the Lord said to me, 'Leave Jerusalem, for I will send you far away to the Gentiles!'"
  2. The crowd listened until Paul came to that word; then with one voice they shouted, "Away with such a fellow! Kill him! He isn't fit to live!"

Matthew 23:32

  1. Go ahead. Finish what they started.

Acts 13:45

  1. But when the Jewish leaders saw the crowds, they were jealous; so they slandered Paul and argued against whatever he said.

Genesis 15:16

  1. After four generations your descendants will return here to this land, when the sin of the Amorites has run its course."

Luke 11:50

  1. "And you of this generation will be held responsible for the murder of all God's prophets from the creation of the world--
  2. from the murder of Abel to the murder of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, it will surely be charged against you.

Malachi 4:1

  1. The LORD Almighty says, "The day of judgment is coming, burning like a furnace. The arrogant and the wicked will be burned up like straw on that day. They will be consumed like a tree--roots and all.

Mark 16:16

  1. Anyone who believes and is baptized will be saved. But anyone who refuses to believe will be condemned.

Acts 14:5

  1. A mob of Gentiles and Jews, along with their leaders, decided to attack and stone them.

Galatians 5:11

  1. Dear brothers and sisters, if I were still preaching that you must be circumcised--as some say I do--why would the Jews persecute me? The fact that I am still being persecuted proves that I am still preaching salvation through the cross of Christ alone.

Acts 14:2

  1. But the Jews who spurned God's message stirred up distrust among the Gentiles against Paul and Barnabas, saying all sorts of evil things about them.

James 5:1

  1. Look here, you rich people, weep and groan with anguish because of all the terrible troubles ahead of you.
  2. Your wealth is rotting away, and your fine clothes are moth-eaten rags.
  3. Your gold and silver have become worthless. The very wealth you were counting on will eat away your flesh in hell. This treasure you have accumulated will stand as evidence against you on the day of judgment.
  4. For listen! Hear the cries of the field workers whom you have cheated of their pay. The wages you held back cry out against you. The cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.
  5. You have spent your years on earth in luxury, satisfying your every whim. Now your hearts are nice and fat, ready for the slaughter.

Zechariah 5:6

  1. "What is it?" I asked. He replied, "It is a basket for measuring grain, and it is filled with the sins of everyone throughout the land."
  2. When the heavy lead cover was lifted off the basket, there was a woman sitting inside it.
  3. The angel said, "The woman's name is Wickedness," and he pushed her back into the basket and closed the heavy lid again.

1 Thessalonians 1:10

  1. And they speak of how you are looking forward to the coming of God's Son from heaven--Jesus, whom God raised from the dead. He is the one who has rescued us from the terrors of the coming judgment.

Romans 10:13

  1. For "Anyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."
  2. But how can they call on him to save them unless they believe in him? And how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them?
  3. And how will anyone go and tell them without being sent? That is what the Scriptures mean when they say, "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!"

Acts 11:2

  1. But when Peter arrived back in Jerusalem, some of the Jewish believers criticized him.
  2. "You entered the home of Gentiles and even ate with them!" they said.

Matthew 24:21

  1. For that will be a time of greater horror than anything the world has ever seen or will ever see again.
  2. In fact, unless that time of calamity is shortened, the entire human race will be destroyed. But it will be shortened for the sake of God's chosen ones.

Matthew 24:6

  1. And wars will break out near and far, but don't panic. Yes, these things must come, but the end won't follow immediately.

Luke 21:20

  1. "And when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then you will know that the time of its destruction has arrived.
  2. Then those in Judea must flee to the hills. Let those in Jerusalem escape, and those outside the city should not enter it for shelter.
  3. For those will be days of God's vengeance, and the prophetic words of the Scriptures will be fulfilled.
  4. How terrible it will be for pregnant women and for mothers nursing their babies. For there will be great distress in the land and wrath upon this people.
  5. They will be brutally killed by the sword or sent away as captives to all the nations of the world. And Jerusalem will be conquered and trampled down by the Gentiles until the age of the Gentiles comes to an end.

Ephesians 3:8

  1. Just think! Though I did nothing to deserve it, and though I am the least deserving Christian there is, I was chosen for this special joy of telling the Gentiles about the endless treasures available to them in Christ.

Matthew 3:7

  1. But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to be baptized, he denounced them. "You brood of snakes!" he exclaimed. "Who warned you to flee God's coming judgment?
  2. Prove by the way you live that you have really turned from your sins and turned to God.
  3. Don't just say, 'We're safe--we're the descendants of Abraham.' That proves nothing. God can change these stones here into children of Abraham.
  4. Even now the ax of God's judgment is poised, ready to sever your roots. Yes, every tree that does not produce good fruit will be chopped down and thrown into the fire.

1 Timothy 2:4

  1. for he wants everyone to be saved and to understand the truth.

Matthew 22:6

  1. Others seized his messengers and treated them shamefully, even killing some of them.
  2. "Then the king became furious. He sent out his army to destroy the murderers and burn their city.

Acts 19:9

  1. But some rejected his message and publicly spoke against the Way, so Paul left the synagogue and took the believers with him. Then he began preaching daily at the lecture hall of Tyrannus.

Acts 18:12

  1. But when Gallio became governor of Achaia, some Jews rose in concerted action against Paul and brought him before the governor for judgment.
  2. They accused Paul of "persuading people to worship God in ways that are contrary to the law."

Acts 21:27

  1. The seven days were almost ended when some Jews from the province of Asia saw Paul in the Temple and roused a mob against him. They grabbed him,
  2. yelling, "Men of Israel! Help! This is the man who teaches against our people and tells everybody to disobey the Jewish laws. He speaks against the Temple--and he even defiles it by bringing Gentiles in!"
  3. (For earlier that day they had seen him in the city with Trophimus, a Gentile from Ephesus, and they assumed Paul had taken him into the Temple.)
  4. The whole population of the city was rocked by these accusations, and a great riot followed. Paul was dragged out of the Temple, and immediately the gates were closed behind him.
  5. As they were trying to kill him, word reached the commander of the Roman regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

Ephesians 3:13

  1. So please don't despair because of what they are doing to me here. It is for you that I am suffering, so you should feel honored and encouraged.

Revelation 22:11

  1. Let the one who is doing wrong continue to do wrong; the one who is vile, continue to be vile; the one who is good, continue to do good; and the one who is holy, continue in holiness."

Hebrews 6:8

  1. But if a field bears thistles and thorns, it is useless. The farmer will condemn that field and burn it.

Matthew 12:45

  1. Then the spirit finds seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they all enter the person and live there. And so that person is worse off than before. That will be the experience of this evil generation."

Matthew 21:41

  1. The religious leaders replied, "He will put the wicked men to a horrible death and lease the vineyard to others who will give him his share of the crop after each harvest."
  2. Then Jesus asked them, "Didn't you ever read this in the Scriptures? 'The stone rejected by the builders has now become the cornerstone. This is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous to see.'
  3. What I mean is that the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a nation that will produce the proper fruit.
  4. Anyone who stumbles over that stone will be broken to pieces, and it will crush anyone on whom it falls. "

Malachi 4:5

  1. "Look, I am sending you the prophet Elijah before the great and dreadful day of the LORD arrives.

Acts 4:12

  1. There is salvation in no one else! There is no other name in all of heaven for people to call on to save them."

Matthew 24:14

  1. And the Good News about the Kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world, so that all nations will hear it; and then, finally, the end will come.

Acts 11:17

  1. And since God gave these Gentiles the same gift he gave us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to argue?"
  2. When the others heard this, all their objections were answered and they began praising God. They said, "God has also given the Gentiles the privilege of turning from sin and receiving eternal life."

Acts 17:5

  1. But the Jewish leaders were jealous, so they gathered some worthless fellows from the streets to form a mob and start a riot. They attacked the home of Jason, searching for Paul and Silas so they could drag them out to the crowd.
  2. Not finding them there, they dragged out Jason and some of the other believers instead and took them before the city council. "Paul and Silas have turned the rest of the world upside down, and now they are here disturbing our city," they shouted.

Matthew 3:12

  1. He is ready to separate the chaff from the grain with his winnowing fork. Then he will clean up the threshing area, storing the grain in his barn but burning the chaff with never-ending fire."

Luke 19:42

  1. "I wish that even today you would find the way of peace. But now it is too late, and peace is hidden from you.
  2. Before long your enemies will build ramparts against your walls and encircle you and close in on you.
  3. They will crush you to the ground, and your children with you. Your enemies will not leave a single stone in place, because you have rejected the opportunity God offered you."

Isaiah 45:22

  1. Let all the world look to me for salvation! For I am God; there is no other.

Joel 2:30

  1. "I will cause wonders in the heavens and on the earth--blood and fire and pillars of smoke.
  2. The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon will turn bloodred before that great and terrible day of the LORD arrives.

Hebrews 10:27

  1. There will be nothing to look forward to but the terrible expectation of God's judgment and the raging fire that will consume his enemies.
  2. Anyone who refused to obey the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
  3. Think how much more terrible the punishment will be for those who have trampled on the Son of God and have treated the blood of the covenant as if it were common and unholy. Such people have insulted and enraged the Holy Spirit who brings God's mercy to his people.
  4. For we know the one who said, "I will take vengeance. I will repay those who deserve it." He also said, "The Lord will judge his own people."
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