1 Thessalonians 2:15

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
• English Standard Version (ESV)who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind
• 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

13For this reason we also thank God without ceasing, because when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also effectively works in you who believe. 14For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus. For you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, just as they did from the Judeans, 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, 16forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, so as always to fill up the measure of their sins; but wrath has come upon them to the uttermost. 17But we, brethren, having been taken away from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavored more eagerly to see your face with great desire.

1 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 exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
• Matthew 21:35And the vinedressers took his servants, beat one, killed one, and stoned another.
• Matthew 23:31“Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.
• Matthew 27:25And all the people answered and said, “His blood be on us and on our children.”
• Luke 11:48In fact, you bear witness that you approve the deeds of your fathers; for they indeed killed them, and you build their tombs.
• Luke 13:33Nevertheless I must journey today, tomorrow, and the day following; for it cannot be that a prophet should perish outside of Jerusalem.
• Acts 2:23Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death;
• Acts 3:15and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.
• Acts 4:10let it be known to you all, 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 stands here before you whole.
• Acts 5:30The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you murdered by hanging on a tree.
• Acts 7:52Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers,
• Amos 7:12Then Amaziah said to Amos: “Go, you seer! Flee to the land of Judah. There eat bread, And there prophesy.
• Acts 22:18and saw Him saying to me, ‘Make haste and get out of Jerusalem quickly, for they will not receive your testimony concerning Me.’
• Acts 12:3And because he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to seize Peter also. Now it was during the Days of Unleavened Bread.
• 1 Corinthians 10:5But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.
• Esther 3:8Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of your kingdom; their laws are different from all other people’s, and they do not keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not fitting for the king to let them remain.

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