1 Thessalonians 1:8-10

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 1:10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus our deliverer from the coming wrath. ⁵ 

¹ tn Or “the word of the Lord.”

² tn Grk “your faith in God has gone out.”

³ tn Grk “they themselves,” referring to people in the places just mentioned.

⁴ tn Grk “what sort of entrance we had to you” (an idiom for how someone is received).

⁵ sn The coming wrath. This wrath is an important theme in 1 Thess 5.