帖撒罗尼迦前书 1:8
For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.
Context
This verse from 帖撒罗尼迦前书 Chapter 1 connects to 10 cross-references. 保罗感谢帖撒罗尼迦教会的信心、爱心和盼望。他们在大难中接受了圣灵的喜乐，成为马其顿和亚该亚众信徒的榜样，离弃偶像归向永生神，等候祂儿子从天降临。
其他译本
For from you hath sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith to God-ward is gone forth; so that we need not to speak anything.
for from you hath sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God did go forth, so that we have no need to say anything,
For not only was the word of the Lord sounding out from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith in God is made clear; so that we have no need to say anything.
交叉参考
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And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, …
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good …
And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, …
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole …
How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him …
But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto …
For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would …
What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?
And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: