1Th 2:13-16 | ESV | STEP | And we also thank God constantly for this , that when you received the word of God , which you heard from us , you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is , the word of God , which is at work in you believers .

1 Thessalonians 2:13-16

13 And ^awe also thank God constantly ^{▼▼Or without ceasing} for this, that when you received ^cthe word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it ^dnot as the word of men ^{▼▼The Greek word anthropoi can refer to both men and women} but as what it really is, the word of God, ^fwhich is at work in you believers. 14 For you, brothers, ^gbecame imitators of ^hthe churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For ⁱyou suffered the same things from your own countrymen ^jas they did from the Jews, ^{▼▼The Greek word Ioudaioi can refer to Jewish religious leaders and others under their influence, who opposed the Christian faith in that time} 15 ^lwho killed both the Lord Jesus and ^mthe prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and ⁿoppose all mankind 16 ^oby hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved—so as always ^pto fill up the measure of their sins. But ^qwrath has come upon them at last! ^{▼▼Or completely, or forever}