1:9 For people everywhere 1 report how you welcomed us 2 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. 3
1 tnGrk “they themselves,” referring to people in the places just mentioned.
2 tnGrk “what sort of entrance we had to you” (an idiom for how someone is received).
3 snThe coming wrath. This wrath is an important theme in 1 Thess 5.