19 lines
520 B
Markdown
19 lines
520 B
Markdown
## became imitators of the churches... ##
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They experienced similar hostility from other Thessalonians just as the first believers experienced persecution from the Jewish leaders. Alternate translation: "became like the churches..."
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## from your own countrymen ##
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"from other Thessalonians"
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## They forbid us to speak ##
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"They seek to make us stop speaking"
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## to always fill up their sins ##
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"to continue to sin"
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## Wrath has come on them ##
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"God's punishment has come on them" or God's anger has come on them" |