1 Thessalonians 2:15-17

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁵ who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets,^[a] and drove us out; they displease God and oppose everyone ¹⁶ by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. Thus they have constantly been filling up the measure of their sins; but God’s wrath has overtaken them at last.^[b]

Paul’s Desire to Visit the Thessalonians Again

¹⁷ As for us, brothers and sisters,^[c] when, for a short time, we were made orphans by being separated from you—in person, not in heart—we longed with great eagerness to see you face to face.