English Standard Version
1 Thessalonians 2:15
15who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind
1 Thessalonians 2:15 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)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:
- New International Version (NIV)who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and also drove us out. They displease God and are hostile to everyone
- New King James Version (NKJV)who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they do not please God and are contrary to all men,
- New Living Translation (NLT)For some of the Jews killed the prophets, and some even killed the Lord Jesus. Now they have persecuted us, too. They fail to please God and work against all humanity
Context of 1 Thessalonians 2:15
13And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers. 14For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews, who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind 16by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved—so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them at last! 17But since we were torn away from you, brothers, for a short time, in person not in heart, we endeavored the more eagerly and with great desire to see you face to face,
Read all of 1 Thessalonians 21 Thessalonians 2:15 word by word
τῶν καὶ τὸν κύριον ἀποκτεινάντων Ἰησοῦν καὶ τοὺς προφήτας καὶ ἡμᾶς ἐκδιωξάντων καὶ θεῷ μὴ ἀρεσκόντων καὶ πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις ἐναντίων,Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- Whoὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
- bothκαίkai · andG2532
- killedἀποκτείνωapokteinō · to killG615
- the Lordκύριοςkurios · lord: GodG2962
- JesusἸησοῦςIēsous · JesusG2424
- their ownἴδιοςidios · one's own/privateG2398
- prophetsπροφήτηςprophētēs · prophetG4396
- have persecutedἐκδιώκωekdiōkō · to persecuteG1559
- usἐγώegō · I/weG1473
- they pleaseἀρέσκωareskō · to pleaseG700
- notμήmē · notG3361
- Godθεόςtheos · GodG2316
- contraryἐναντίοςenantios · hostileG1727
- to allπᾶςpas · allG3956
- menἄνθρωποςanthrōpos · a humanG444
Cross-references for 1 Thessalonians 2:15
- Matthew 5:12Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
- Matthew 21:35And the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another.
- Matthew 23:31Thus you witness against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.
- Matthew 27:25And all the people answered, "His blood be on us and on our children!"
- Luke 11:48So you are witnesses and you consent to the deeds of your fathers, for they killed them, and you build their tombs.
- Luke 13:33Nevertheless, I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the day following, for it cannot be that a prophet should perish away from Jerusalem.'
- Acts 2:23this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.
- Acts 3:15and you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses.
- Acts 4:10let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—by him this man is standing before you well.
- Acts 5:30The God of our fathers raised Jesus, whom you killed by hanging him on a tree.
- Acts 7:52Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered,
- Amos 7:12And Amaziah said to Amos, "O seer, go, flee away to the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there,
- Acts 22:18and saw him saying to me, 'Make haste and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about me.'
- Acts 12:3and when he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also. This was during the days of Unleavened Bread.
- 1 Corinthians 10:5Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
- Esther 3:8Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom. Their laws are different from those of every other people, and they do not keep the king's laws, so that it is not to the king's profit to tolerate them.
Commentaries on 1 Thessalonians 2:15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15Who hath killed the Lord Jesus, etc. - What a finished but just character is this of the Jews! They slew the Lord Jesus, through the most unprincipled and fell malice. They killed their own prophets; there was no time in which the seed of the serpent did not hate and oppose spiritual things, they slew even their own prophets who declared to them the will of God. They persecuted the apostles; showing the same spirit of enmity to the Gospel which they had…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15Who both killed the Lord Jesus - see the notes on Acts 2:23. The meaning here is, that it was characteristic of the Jews to be engaged in the work of persecution, and that they should not regard it as strange that they who had put their own Messiah to death, and slain the prophets, should now be found persecuting the true children of God. And their own prophets - see the Matthew 21:33-40; 23:29-37 notes; Acts 7:52 note. And have persecuted us - As at…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 13-16Verses 13-16 We should receive the word of God with affections suitable to its holiness, wisdom, truth, and goodness. The words of men are frail and perishing, like themselves, and sometimes false, foolish, and fickle; but God's word is holy, wise, just, and faithful. Let us receive and regard it accordingly. The word wrought in them, to make them examples to others in faith and good works, and in patience under sufferings, and in trials for the sake of…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 15Paul was not opposed to the Jewish people. Out of love for them, he prayed for their salvation (Romans 9:1–5; 10:1). However, he knew some Jews had a role in the deaths of God’s messengers, including the Lord Jesus and some prophets (1 Kings 19:10; Acts 7:52). Some Jews had also persecuted the apostles in Thessalonica (Acts 17:10; 2 Corinthians 11:26).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1515. the Lord Jesus--rather as Greek, "Jesus THE Lord." This enhances the glaring enormity of their sin, that in killing Jesus they killed the Lord (Compare Ac 3:14, 15). their own--omitted in the oldest manuscripts. prophets--(Mt 21:33-41; 23:31-37; Lu 13:33). persecuted us--rather as Greek (see Margin), "By persecution drove us out" (Lu 11:49). please not God--that is, they do not make it their aim to please God. He implies that with all their boast of…Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 Thessalonians 2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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