1 Thessalonians 2:15

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.

whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”

“Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.

The Son of Man indeed goes, as it has been determined, but woe to that man through whom he is betrayed!”

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

But Peter said, “I have no silver or gold, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”

But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.

to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.

Always rejoice.

Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.

You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it you came out of Egypt), and no one shall appear before me empty.

It shall be that whoever goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, and we will be guiltless. Whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is on him.

May Yahweh repay your work, and a full reward be given to you from Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”

“I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

But the house of Israel will not listen to you, for they will not listen to me; for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hard-hearted.

As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we have not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities and have discernment in your truth.

As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man, so the company of priests murder on the path toward Shechem, committing shameful crimes.

A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.

You are witnesses of these things.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.

But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

saying, “Didn’t we strictly command you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man’s blood on us.”

Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

We are witnesses of everything he did both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they also killed, hanging him on a tree.

We sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and came to them at Troas in five days, where we stayed seven days.

But when two years were fulfilled, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and desiring to gain favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul in bonds.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”

With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated—

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.

For they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this.”

“ ‘If by these things you won’t be turned back to me, but will walk contrary to me,

Three times in a year all of your males shall appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he chooses: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of booths. They shall not appear before Yahweh empty.

(In earlier times in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he said, “Come! Let’s go to the seer;” for he who is now called a prophet was before called a seer.)

He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

For you have been my help. I will rejoice in the shadow of your wings.

Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.

Yahweh is your keeper. Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.

Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

“ ‘Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps.

O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

Then they answered and said before the king, “That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, doesn’t respect you, O king, nor the decree that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.”

They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

Behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they begged that he would depart from their borders.

“A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord.

For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.

So they took him, and threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.

The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will in no way hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.

Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death.”

Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither is one who is sent greater than he who sent him.

Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

By faith in his name, his name has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which is through him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.

God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

When they had fulfilled all things that were written about him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb.

But Festus, desiring to gain favor with the Jews, answered Paul and said, “Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem, and be judged by me there concerning these things?”

pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;

Now 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 assembly,

Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake,

Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe.

Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different from other people’s. They don’t keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not for the king’s profit to allow them to remain.

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

All the people answered, “May his blood be on us, and on our children!”

They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty.

and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.

For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.

and they fetched Uriah out of Egypt, and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.

There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

Amaziah also said to Amos, “You seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:

If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.’ ”

and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.

may it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, this man stands here before you whole in him.

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree.

When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This was during the days of unleavened bread.

For if I have done wrong and have committed anything worthy of death, I don’t refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!”

that I may be delivered from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,

However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

In her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on the earth.”

Like a muddied spring and a polluted well, so is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”