1 Thessalonians 1:7
So have you become a pattern for all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.
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In The King James Version
So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.
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Acts 1:13And when they had entered into the cenacle, they ascended to the place where Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Jude of James, were staying.
Acts 18:1After these things, having departed from Athens, he arrived at Corinth.
2 Corinthians 9:2For I know your willing mind. I glory about you, concerning this, to the Macedonians. For Achaia has also been prepared, for the past year. And your example has inspired very many others.
1 Thessalonians 1:8For from you, the Word of the Lord was spread, not only in Macedonia and in Achaia, but also in every place. Your faith, which is toward God, has advanced so much so that we do not need to speak to you about anything.
1 Timothy 4:12Let no one despise your youth, but be an example among the faithful in word, in behavior, in charity, in faith, in chastity.
1 Peter 5:3not so as to dominate by means of the clerical state, but so as to be formed into a flock from the heart.
Matthew Henry on 1 Thessalonians 1:7-10
Evidence of the Apostle's Success. ( a. d. 51.) 6 And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost: 7 So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia. 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. 9 For they themselves show of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye… Read the whole commentary →