1 Thessalonians 1:8

World English Bible (2000)

For from you the word of the Lord has been declared, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out; so that we need not to say anything.

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  • Rom 1:8 : 8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
  • 2 Thess 1:4 : 4 so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.
  • 2 Thess 3:1 : 1 Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you;
  • 3 John 1:12 : 12 Demetrius has the testimony of all, and of the truth itself; yes, we also testify, and you know that our testimony is true.
  • Rev 14:6 : 6 I saw an angel flying in mid heaven, having an eternal Good News to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth, and to every nation, tribe, language, and people.
  • Rev 22:17 : 17 The Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" He who hears, let him say, "Come!" He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.
  • Rom 10:14-18 : 14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher? 15 And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!" 16 But they didn't all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?" 17 So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. 18 But I say, didn't they hear? Yes, most certainly, "Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world."
  • Rom 16:19 : 19 For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.
  • 1 Cor 14:36 : 36 What? Was it from you that the word of God went out? Or did it come to you alone?
  • 2 Cor 3:4 : 4 Such confidence we have through Christ toward God;
  • Exod 18:9 : 9 Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Yahweh had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.
  • Isa 2:3 : 3 Many peoples shall go and say, "Come, let's go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths." For out of Zion the law shall go forth, and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem.
  • Isa 52:7 : 7 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of good, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, "Your God reigns!"
  • Isa 66:19 : 19 "I will set a sign among them, and I will send such as escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the islands afar off, who have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations.

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  • 1 Thess 1:5-7
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    5 and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.

    6 You became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

    7 so that you became an example to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.

  • 1 Thess 1:9
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    9 For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you; and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,

  • Rom 1:8
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    8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

  • Col 1:4
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    4 having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have toward all the saints,

  • 2 Thess 1:3-4
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    3 We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you towards one another abounds;

    4 so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.

  • 2 Cor 8:1-2
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    1 Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia;

    2 how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality.

  • 2 Cor 8:6-8
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    6 So we urged Titus, that as he made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace.

    7 But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.

    8 I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

  • Phlm 1:5-6
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    5 hearing of your love, and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints;

    6 that the fellowship of your faith may become effective, in the knowledge of every good thing which is in us in Christ Jesus.

  • 2 Cor 1:12-14
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    12 For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

    13 For we write no other things to you, than what you read or even acknowledge, and I hope you will acknowledge to the end;

    14 as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

  • Eph 1:15
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    15 For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which you have toward all the saints,

  • Phil 1:27-28
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    27 Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

    28 and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

  • 1 Thess 3:6-7
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    6 But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you;

    7 for this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith.

  • 2 Cor 1:16
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    16 and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea.

  • 1 Thess 2:13
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    13 For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

  • 2 Cor 8:18-19
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    18 We have sent together with him the brother whose praise in the Good News is known through all the assemblies.

    19 Not only so, but who was also appointed by the assemblies to travel with us in this grace, which is served by us to the glory of the Lord himself, and to show our readiness.

  • 2 Cor 1:24
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    24 Not that we have lordship over your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.

  • 2 Cor 10:14-16
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    14 For we don't stretch ourselves too much, as though we didn't reach to you. For we came even as far as to you with the Good News of Christ,

    15 not boasting beyond proper limits in other men's labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,

    16 so as to preach the Good News even to the parts beyond you, not to boast in what someone else has already done.

  • 1 Cor 1:5-6
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    5 that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge;

    6 even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:

  • 2 Thess 1:11-12
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    11 To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith, with power;

    12 that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

  • 2 Cor 9:2-4
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    2 for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for a year past. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.

    3 But I have sent the brothers that our boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said, you may be prepared,

    4 so that I won't by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) should be disappointed in this confident boasting.

  • Col 1:6
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    6 which has come to you; even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;

  • Phil 1:5
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    5 for your partnership in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now;

  • Col 1:8
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    8 who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.

  • Phil 1:14
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    14 and that most of the brothers in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear.

  • 1 Thess 2:1-2
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    1 For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn't in vain,

    2 but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.

  • 1 Thess 1:3
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    3 remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

  • 2 Cor 9:13
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    13 seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all;

  • 1 Thess 4:10
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    10 for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;

  • 2 Cor 8:24
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    24 Therefore show the proof of your love to them in front of the assemblies, and of our boasting on your behalf.

  • 1 Thess 2:9
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    9 For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

  • 1 Thess 2:4
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    4 But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.