1 Thessalonians 2:13-16
13And for this reason we also athank God without ceasing that when you received the bword of God which you heard from us, you accepted it cnot as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God, dwhich also is at work in you who believe. 14For you, brothers, became aimitators of bthe churches of God in Christ Jesus that are cin Judea, for dyou also suffered the same things at the hands of your own countrymen, eeven as they did from the Jews, 15awho both killed the Lord Jesus and bthe prophets, and 1drove us out, and do not please God, and are hostile to all men, 16ahindering us from speaking to the Gentiles bso that they may be saved; with the result that they always cfill up the measure of their sins. But dwrath has come upon them 1to the utmost.