## translationWords

* [[en:tw:brother]]
* [[en:tw:christ]]
* [[en:tw:church]]
* [[en:tw:gentile]]
* [[en:tw:god]]
* [[en:tw:jesus]]
* [[en:tw:jew]]
* [[en:tw:judea]]
* [[en:tw:lord]]
* [[en:tw:prophet]]
* [[en:tw:save]]
* [[en:tw:sin]]
* [[en:tw:suffer]]
* [[en:tw:wrath]]

## translationNotes

* **became imitators of the churches...** - They experienced similar hostility from other Thessalonians just as the first believers experienced persecution from the Jewish leaders. Alternate translation: "became like the churches..."
* **from your own countrymen** - "from other Thessalonians"
* **They forbid us to speak** - "They seek to make us stop speaking"
* **to always fill up their sins** - "to continue to sin"
* **Wrath has come on them ** - "God's punishment has come on them" or God's anger has come on them"