> for ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of god which in judaea are in christ jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the jews: who both killed the lord jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not god, and are contrary to all men: 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. (1 thessalonians 2:14-16) its in the nt
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