Cross-references Explore similar Bible verses on 1 Thessalonians 2:15 in English Standard Version "who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind" Es 3:8 Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom. Their laws are different from those of every other people, and they do not keep the king’s laws, so that it is not to the king’s profit to tolerate them. Jer 2:30 In vain have I struck your children; they took no correction; your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion. Mt 5:12 Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you. Mt 23:29 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous, Lu 24:20 and how our chief priests and rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.