1 Thessalonians 2:14

American Standard Version (1901)

For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus: for ye also suffered the same things of your own countrymen, even as they did of the Jews;

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  • 1 Thess 3:4 : 4 For verily, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction; even as it came to pass, and ye know.
  • 2 Thess 1:4 : 4 so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which ye endure;
  • Gal 1:22 : 22 And I was still unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ:
  • Heb 10:33-34 : 33 partly, being made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, becoming partakers with them that were so used. 34 For ye both had compassion on them that were in bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your possessions, knowing that ye have for yourselves a better possession and an abiding one.
  • 2 Cor 8:1-2 : 1 Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God which hath been given in the churches of Macedonia; 2 how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
  • 1 Thess 1:6 : 6 And ye became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit;
  • Heb 5:7-8 : 7 Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear, [ 8 though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered;
  • 2 Thess 1:1 : 1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ;
  • 1 Thess 1:1 : 1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace.
  • Acts 8:1 : 1 And Saul was consenting unto his death. And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church which was in Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.
  • Acts 8:3 : 3 But Saul laid waste the church, entering into every house, and dragging men and women committed them to prison.
  • Acts 9:1 : 1 But Saul, yet breathing threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,
  • Acts 9:13 : 13 But Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many of this man, how much evil he did to thy saints at Jerusalem:
  • Acts 9:31 : 31 So the church throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, being edified; and, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, was multiplied.
  • Acts 11:19 : 19 They therefore that were scattered abroad upon the tribulation that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phoenicia, and Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to none save only to Jews.
  • Acts 12:1-3 : 1 Now about that time Herod the king put forth his hands to afflict certain of the church. 2 And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. 3 And when he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. And [those] were the days of unleavened bread.
  • Acts 17:1-8 : 1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews: 2 and Paul, as his custom was, went in unto them, and for three sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures, 3 opening and alleging that it behooved the Christ to suffer, and to rise again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom, [said he], I proclaim unto you, is the Christ. 4 And some of them were persuaded, and consorted with Paul and Silas, and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few. 5 But the Jews, being moved with jealousy, took unto them certain vile fellows of the rabble, and gathering a crowd, set the city on an uproar; and assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them forth to the people. 6 And when they found them not, they dragged Jason and certain brethren before the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also; 7 whom Jason hath received: and these all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, [one] Jesus. 8 And they troubled the multitude and the rulers of the city, when they heard these things.
  • Acts 17:13 : 13 But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed of Paul at Beroea also, they came thither likewise, stirring up and troubling the multitudes.
  • 1 Cor 7:17 : 17 Only, as the Lord hath distributed to each man, as God hath called each, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all the churches.

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  • 1 Thess 1:5-7
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    5how that our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and [in] much assurance; even as ye know what manner of men we showed ourselves toward you for your sake.

    6And ye became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit;

    7so that ye became an ensample to all that believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.

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    15who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove out us, and pleased not God, and are contrary to all men;

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    4so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which ye endure;

    5[ which is] a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God; to the end that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:

    6if so be that it is righteous thing with God to recompense affliction to them that afflict you,

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    32But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were enlightened, ye endured a great conflict of sufferings;

    33partly, being made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, becoming partakers with them that were so used.

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    17Brethren, be ye imitators together of me, and mark them that so walk even as ye have us for an ensample.

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    13And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when ye received from us the word of the message, [even the word] of God, ye accepted [it] not [as] the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also worketh in you that believe.

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    21For hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye should follow his steps:

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    4For verily, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction; even as it came to pass, and ye know.

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    12I beseech you, brethren, become as I [am], for I also [am become] as ye [are] . Ye did me no wrong:

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    1Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

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    13For ye have heard of my manner of life in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and made havoc of it:

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    10But thou didst follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, patience,

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    9For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

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    14whereunto he called you through our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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    4and that because of the false brethren privily brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

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    24Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church;

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