1:8 For from you the message of the Lord 1 has echoed forth not just in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place reports of your faith in God have spread, 2 so that we do not need to say anything.
1:9 For people everywhere 3 report how you welcomed us 4 and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God
1 tn Or “the word of the Lord.”
2 tnGrk “your faith in God has gone out.”
3 tnGrk “they themselves,” referring to people in the places just mentioned.
4 tnGrk “what sort of entrance we had to you” (an idiom for how someone is received).