NET Bible
"For people everywhere report how you welcomed us and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God"
— 1 Thessalonians 1:9, NET Bible
“For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;”
“For they themselves report concerning us what manner of entering in we had unto you; and how ye turned unto God from idols, to serve a living and true God, ”
“For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you; and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,”
“For they themselves relate of us, what manner of entering in we had unto you: and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God.”
“For they themselves give the news of how we came among you; and how you were turned from images to God, to the worship of a true and living God,”
“For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;”
And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, when you received the message with joy that comes from the Holy Spirit, despite great affliction.
As a result you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia.
For from you the message of the Lord has echoed forth not just in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place reports of your faith in God have spread, so that we do not need to say anything.
For people everywhere report how you welcomed us and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God
and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus our deliverer from the coming wrath.