1 Thessalonians 2:15

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Who both kylled the Lorde Iesus, and their owne prophetes, & haue persecuted vs: and God they please not, and are contrarie to all men:

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  • Matt 5:12 : 12 Reioyce, and be glad: for great is your rewarde in heauen. For so persecuted they the prophetes, whiche were before you.
  • Acts 2:23 : 23 Hym haue ye taken, by the handes of vnryghteous persons, after he was deliuered by the determinate councell and foreknowledge of God, and haue crucified and slayne hym.
  • Acts 7:52 : 52 Which of the prophetes haue not your fathers persecuted? And they haue slayne them which shewed before of the commyng of that iuste, of whom ye are nowe the betrayers and murtherers:
  • Luke 11:48-53 : 48 Truely, ye beare witnesse that ye alowe the deedes of your fathers: for they kylled them, and ye buylde their sepulchres. 49 Therfore saide the wisedome of God, I wyl sende them prophetes and apostles, and some of them they shall slaye and persecute: 50 That the blood of all the prophetes, which is shedde, from the foundation of the worlde, may be required of this generation, 51 From the blood of Abel, vnto ye blood of Zacharie, whiche perished betwene the aulter & the temple: Ueryly I saye vnto you, it shalbe required of this nation. 52 Wo vnto you lawyers: for ye haue taken away the keye of knowledge, ye entred not in your selues, and them that came in, ye forbad. 53 When he thus spake vnto them, the lawyers & the pharisees began to vrge hym vehemently, and to prouoke hym to speake many thynges.
  • Luke 13:33-34 : 33 Neuerthelesse, I must walke to day and to morowe, and the day folowyng: For it can not be, that a prophete perishe any other where, saue at Hierusalem. 34 O Hierusalem, Hierusalem, which kyllest prophetes, and stonest them that are sent vnto thee, howe often woulde I haue gathered thy children together, as a henne doth gather her young vnder her wynges, and ye woulde not?
  • Luke 24:20 : 20 And howe the hye priestes, and our rulers deliuered him to be condempned to death, and haue crucified him.
  • Matt 23:31-35 : 31 And so ye be witnesses vnto your selues, that ye are the chyldren of them which kylled the prophetes. 32 Fulfyll ye lykewyse, the measure of your fathers. 33 Ye serpentes, ye generation of vipers, howe wyll ye escape the dampnation of hell? 34 Wherfore, beholde I sende vnto you prophetes, and wyse men, and Scribes, and some of them ye shall kyll and crucifie: and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from citie to citie. 35 That vpon you may come all the ryghteous blood, which hath ben shed vpon the earth, from the blood of ryghteous Abel, vnto the blood of Zacharias, sonne of Barachias, whom ye slewe betwene the temple & the aulter.
  • Matt 23:37 : 37 O Hierusalem, Hierusalem, thou that kyllest the prophetes, and stonest them which are sent vnto thee: Howe often woulde I haue gathered thy chyldren together, euen as the henne gathereth her chickens vnder her wynges, and ye woulde not?
  • Matt 27:25 : 25 Then aunswered all the people, and sayde: His blood be on vs, and on our chyldren.
  • Esth 3:8 : 8 And Haman sayde vnto king Ahasuerus: There is here a people scattred abrode, and dispearsed among all people in all the prouinces of thyne empire, and their lawes are diuers from all people, and do not after the kinges lawes, therefore it is not the kinges profite to suffer them after this maner.
  • Amos 7:12 : 12 Also Amazia sayde to Amos, O thou the sear, Go, flee thou away into the lande of Iuda, and there eate thy bread, and prophecie there.
  • Matt 21:35-39 : 35 And the husbande men caught his seruauntes, and beatte one, killed another, and stoned another. 36 Agayne, he sent other seruauntes, mo then the first: and they dyd vnto them lykewyse. 37 But laste of all, he sent vnto them his owne sonne, saying: they wyll stande in awe of my sonne. 38 But when the husband men sawe the sonne, they sayde among them selues: this is the heire, come, let vs kyll hym, and let vs enioy his inheritaunce. 39 And they caught hym, and thrust him out of the vineyarde, and slewe hym.
  • Acts 12:3 : 3 And because he sawe it pleased the Iewes, he proceaded further, and toke Peter also. (Then were the dayes of sweete bread.)
  • Acts 22:18-21 : 18 And sawe him, saying vnto me: Make haste and get thee quickly out of Hierusalem: for they wyl not receaue thy witnesse concernyng me. 19 And I sayde: Lord, they knowe that I prisoned and beat in euery synagogue them that beleued on thee. 20 And when the blood of thy wytnesse Steuen was shedde, I also stoode by, and consented vnto his death, and kept the rayment of them that slue hym. 21 And he sayde vnto me: depart, for I wyll sende thee farre hence vnto the gentiles.
  • 1 Cor 10:5 : 5 But in many of them had God no delite: For they were ouerthrowen in the wildernesse.
  • Acts 3:15 : 15 And kylled the Lorde of lyfe, whom God hath raysed from the dead: of the which we are witnesses.
  • Acts 4:10 : 10 Be it knowen vnto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Iesus Christe of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raysed agayne from the dead: euen by hym doth this man stande here before you whole.
  • Acts 5:30 : 30 The God of our fathers raysed vp Iesus, whom ye slewe, & hanged on tree.

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