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1 Thessalonians 2:15

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,

1 Thessalonians 2:15 BSB

1 Thessalonians 2:15 has 18 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 13 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Matthew 5:12 (12 votes) and Luke 11:48–53 (8 votes). 80 other verses point back to it. It links with 31 other books, from Deuteronomy 21 to Revelation 18.

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Which verses does 1 Thessalonians 2:15 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Matthew 5:1212 votes

    Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you.

  2. So you are witnesses consenting to the deeds of your fathers: They killed the prophets, and you build their tombs. Because of this, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles; some of them they will kill and others they will persecute.’ …

  3. Acts 7:528 votes

    Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—

  4. Acts 2:237 votes

    He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.

  5. Nevertheless, I must keep going today and tomorrow and the next day, for it is not admissible for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

  6. So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets. Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers. …

  7. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

  8. All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”

  9. Luke 24:205 votes

    Our chief priests and rulers delivered Him up to the sentence of death, and they crucified Him.

  10. Acts 3:155 votes

    You killed the Author of life, but God raised Him from the dead, and we are witnesses of this fact.

  11. Esther 3:84 votes
  12. Acts 5:304 votes
  13. Acts 12:34 votes
  14. Amos 7:122 votes
  15. Acts 4:102 votes

Which verses point to 1 Thessalonians 2:15?

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