Study Desk

For this reason we also constantly ^(C1)thank God that when you received the ^(C2)word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it ^(C3)not as the word of mere men, but as what it really is, the word of God, ^(C4)which also is at work in you who believe.

For you, brothers and sisters, became ^(C1)imitators of ^(C2)the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are ^(C3)in Judea, for ^(C4)you also endured the same sufferings at the hands of your own countrymen, ^(C5)even as they did from the Jews,

^(C1)who both killed the Lord Jesus and ^(C2)the prophets, and ^(F1)drove us out. ^(F2)They are not pleasing to God, ^(F2)but hostile to all people,

^(C1)hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles ^(C2)so that they may be saved; with the result that they always ^(F1)(C3)reach the limit of their sins. But ^(C4)wrath has come upon them ^(F2)fully.