1 Tesalonika 2:14

2:14 For you became imitators, brothers and sisters, ¹  of God’s churches in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, because you too suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they in fact did from the Jews,

1 Tesalonika 2:16

2:16 because they hinder us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. Thus they constantly fill up their measure of sins, ²  but wrath ³  has come upon them completely. ⁴ 

1 Tesalonika 4:5

4:5 not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God.

1 Tesalonika 2:15

2:15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets ⁵  and persecuted us severely. ⁶  They are displeasing to God and are opposed to all people,

1 Tesalonika 4:10

4:10 And indeed you are practicing it toward all the brothers and sisters ⁷  in all of Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more, ⁸ 

¹ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:4.

² tn Grk “to fill up their sins always.”

³ tc The Western text (D F G latt) adds τοῦ θεοῦ (tou qeou) to ὀργή (orgh) to read “the wrath of God,” in emulation of the normal Pauline idiom (cf., e.g., Rom 1:18; Eph 5:6; Col 3:6) and, most likely, to clarify which wrath is in view (since ὀργή is articular).

tn Or “the wrath,” possibly referring back to the mention of wrath in 1:10.

⁴ tn Or “at last.”

⁵ tc ἰδίους (idious, “their own prophets”) is found in D¹ Ψ Ï sy Mcion^T. This is obviously a secondary reading. Marcion’s influence may stand behind part of the tradition, but the Byzantine text probably added the adjective in light of its mention in v. 14 and as a clarification or interpretation of which prophets were in view.

⁶ tn Or “and drove us out” (cf. Acts 17:5-10).

⁷ tn Grk “brothers”; this applies to the second occurrence as well. See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:4.

⁸ sn To do so more and more. See 1 Thess 4:1.