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 Thessalonians 2:14
2:14 For you became imitators, brothers and sisters, 3 of God’s churches in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, because you too suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they in fact did from the Jews,
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 tnGrk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:4.