1 Thessalonians 1:7

So that ye were ensamples to all that beleeue in Macedonia and Achaia.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan

so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia.
- New American Standard Version (1995)

so that ye became an ensample to all that believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.
- American Standard Version (1901)

So that you became an example to all those who have faith in Christ in Macedonia and Achaia.
- Basic English Bible

so that ye became models to all that believe in Macedonia and in Achaia:
- Darby Bible

So that ye were examples to all that believe, in Macedonia and Achaia.
- Webster's Bible

so that you became a pattern to all the believers throughout Macedonia and Greece.
- Weymouth Bible

so that you became an example to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.
- World English Bible

so that ye ben maad ensaumple to alle men that bileuen, in Macedonye and in Acaie.
- Wycliffe Bible

so that ye became patterns to all those believing in Macedonia and Achaia,
- Youngs Literal Bible

Wesley's Notes for 1 Thessalonians 1:7

1:5 With power - Piercing the very heart with a sense of sin and deeply convincing you of your want of a Saviour from guilt, misery, and eternal ruin. With the Holy Ghost - Bearing an outward testimony, by miracles, to the truth of what we preached, and you felt: also by his descent through laying on of hands. With much assurance - Literally, with full assurance, and much of it: the Spirit bearing witness by shedding the love of God abroad in your hearts, which is the highest testimony that can be given. And these signs, if not the miraculous gifts, always attend the preaching of the gospel, unless it be in vain: neither are the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost ever wholly withheld, where the gospel is preached with power, and men are alive to God. For your sake - Seeking your advantage, not our own.

1:6 Though in much affliction, yet with much joy.

1:8 For from you the word sounded forth - (Thessalonica being a city of great commerce.) Being echoed, as it were, from you. And your conversion was divulged far beyond Macedonia and Achaia. So that we need not speak anything - Concerning it.

1:9 For they themselves - The people wherever we come.