New American Standard Bible 2020

1 Thessalonians 2:14-20

14For you, brothers and sisters, became 1imitators of 2the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are 3in Judea, for 4you also endured the same sufferings at the hands of your own countrymen, 5even as they did from the Jews, 15 6who both killed the Lord Jesus and 7the prophets, and 8drove us out. 9They are not pleasing to God, 10but hostile to all people, 16 11hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles 12so that they may be saved; with the result that they always 13 14reach the limit of their sins. But 15wrath has come upon them 16fully.

17But we, brothers and sisters, having been orphaned from you by absence for a 17short while--18in 19person, not in 20spirit--were all the more eager with great desire 21to see your face. 18 22For 23we wanted to come to you--I, Paul, 24 25more than once--and 26Satan 27hindered us. 19For who is our hope, or 28joy or crown of pride, in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His 29 30coming? Or is it not indeed you? 20For you are 31our glory and joy.

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Notes

1. 1 Thessalonians 2:14 1 Thess 1:6 ↩
2. 1 Thessalonians 2:14 1 Cor 7:17; 10:32 ↩
3. 1 Thessalonians 2:14 Gal 1:22 ↩
4. 1 Thessalonians 2:14 Acts 17:5; 1 Thess 3:4; 2 Thess 1:4f ↩
5. 1 Thessalonians 2:14 Heb 10:33f ↩
6. 1 Thessalonians 2:15 Luke 24:20; Acts 2:23 ↩
7. 1 Thessalonians 2:15 Matt 5:12; Acts 7:52 ↩
8. 1 Thessalonians 2:15 Or persecuted us ↩
9. 1 Thessalonians 2:15 Lit and ↩
10. 1 Thessalonians 2:15 Lit and ↩
11. 1 Thessalonians 2:16 Acts 9:23; 13:45, 50; 14:2, 5, 19; 17:5, 13; 18:12; 21:21f, 27; 25:2, 7 ↩
12. 1 Thessalonians 2:16 1 Cor 10:33 ↩
13. 1 Thessalonians 2:16 Lit complete their ↩
14. 1 Thessalonians 2:16 Gen 15:16; Dan 8:23; Matt 23:32 ↩
15. 1 Thessalonians 2:16 1 Thess 1:10 ↩
16. 1 Thessalonians 2:16 Or forever; lit to the end ↩
17. 1 Thessalonians 2:17 Lit occasion of an hour ↩
18. 1 Thessalonians 2:17 1 Cor 5:3 ↩
19. 1 Thessalonians 2:17 Lit face ↩
20. 1 Thessalonians 2:17 Lit heart ↩
21. 1 Thessalonians 2:17 1 Thess 3:10 ↩
22. 1 Thessalonians 2:18 Or Because ↩
23. 1 Thessalonians 2:18 Rom 15:22 ↩
24. 1 Thessalonians 2:18 Lit both once and twice ↩
25. 1 Thessalonians 2:18 Phil 4:16 ↩
26. 1 Thessalonians 2:18 Matt 4:10 ↩
27. 1 Thessalonians 2:18 Rom 1:13; 15:22 ↩
28. 1 Thessalonians 2:19 Phil 4:1 ↩
29. 1 Thessalonians 2:19 Or presence ↩
30. 1 Thessalonians 2:19 Matt 16:27; Mark 8:38; John 21:22; 1 Thess 3:13; 4:15; 5:23 ↩
31. 1 Thessalonians 2:20 2 Cor 1:14 ↩

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