Parallel Verses
Amplified
For they themselves report about us, telling what kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,
New American Standard Bible
For they themselves report about us what kind of a
King James Version
For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;
Holman Bible
for they themselves report
International Standard Version
For people keep telling us what kind of welcome you gave us and how you turned away from idols to serve a living and true God
A Conservative Version
For they report about us what kind of entrance we had with you, and how ye turned to God from the idols to serve a living and TRUE God,
American Standard Version
For they themselves report concerning us what manner of entering in we had unto you; and how ye turned unto God from idols, to serve a living and true God,
An Understandable Version
For those people themselves report on what kind of a reception we had from you, and how you people turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God.
Anderson New Testament
For they themselves declare concerning us what kind of entrance we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God,
Bible in Basic English
For they themselves give the news of how we came among you; and how you were turned from images to God, to the worship of a true and living God,
Common New Testament
For they themselves report about us what kind of a reception we had with you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God,
Daniel Mace New Testament
how successful our arrival was among you, and how you renounc'd your idols to serve the living and true God,
Darby Translation
for they themselves relate concerning us what entering in we had to you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God,
Godbey New Testament
for they proclaim concerning what kind of reception we had unto you; and how you turned to God from the idols, to serve the true and the living God,
Goodspeed New Testament
For when people speak of us, they tell what a welcome you gave us, and how you turned from idols to God, to serve a true and living God,
John Wesley New Testament
For they themselves declare concerning us, what manner of entrance to you we had, and how ye turned from idols to God,
Julia Smith Translation
For they themselves proclaim of us what entrance we have to you, and how ye turned to God from images to serve the living and true God;
King James 2000
For they themselves show of us what manner of welcome we had unto you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;
Lexham Expanded Bible
For [they] themselves report about us, what sort of welcome we had with you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve [the] living and true God,
Modern King James verseion
For they themselves witness what kind of entrance we had to you, even how you turned from idols to God in order to serve the living and true God,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
for they themselves show of you what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from images for to serve the living and true God,
Moffatt New Testament
People tell us of their own accord about the visit we paid to you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and a real God
Montgomery New Testament
For others, of their own accord, tell about the welcome I had from you, and how you turned to God from your idols, to be slaved of a true and living God,
NET Bible
For people everywhere report how you welcomed us and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God
New Heart English Bible
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,
Noyes New Testament
For they themselves are reporting concerning us what kind of reception we had among you, and how ye turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God,
Sawyer New Testament
for they declare of us what introduction we had to you, and how you turned from idols to God, to serve the living and true God,
The Emphasized Bible
For, they themselves, concerning us, do tell - what manner of entrance we had unto you, and how ye turned unto God from the idols - to be serving a living and true God,
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For they publish concerning you what manner of entrance we had unto you, and how ye turned unto God from idols, to serve the living and true God,
Twentieth Century New Testament
Indeed, in speaking about us, the people themselves tell of the reception you gave us, and how, turning to God from your idols, you became servants of the true and living God,
Webster
For they themselves show of us what manner of entrance we had to you, and how ye turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God;
Weymouth New Testament
For when others speak of us they report the reception we had from you, and how you turned from your idols to God, to be bondservants of the true and ever-living God,
Williams New Testament
For the people themselves tell us what a welcome you gave us, and how you turned from idols to the true God, to serve the God who lives on and is real,
World English Bible
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,
Worrell New Testament
for they themselves report, concerning us, what manner of entrance we had to you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God,
Worsley New Testament
For they themselves declare concerning us what kind of entrance we had among you, and how ye turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God;
Youngs Literal Translation
for they themselves concerning us do declare what entrance we had unto you, and how ye did turn unto God from the idols, to serve a living and true God,
Themes
Conversion » Through the instrumentality of » Ministers
Idolatry » Renounced on conversion
Repentance » Should be accompanied by » Turning from idolatry
Interlinear
Apaggello
Apaggello
Peri
Hopoios
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0
References
American
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Thessalonians 1:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Thanksgiving For The Thessalonian Believers
8 For the word of the Lord has resounded from you and has echoed [like thunder], not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place [the news of] your [great] faith in God has spread, so that we never need to say anything about it. 9 For they themselves report about us, telling what kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, 10 and to [look forward and confidently] wait for [the coming of] His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead—Jesus, who [personally] rescues us from the coming wrath [and draws us to Himself, granting us all the privileges and rewards of a new life with Him].
Cross References
1 Corinthians 12:2
You know that when you were pagans, you were led off after speechless idols; however you were led off [whether by impulse or habit].
Acts 14:15
“Men, why are you doing these things? We too are only men of the same nature as you, bringing the good news to you, so that you turn from these useless and meaningless things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything that is in them.
1 Thessalonians 2:1
For you know, brothers and sisters, that our coming to you has not been ineffective (fruitless, in vain),
Deuteronomy 5:26
For who is there of all flesh (mankind) who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?
1 Samuel 17:26
Then David spoke to the men who were standing by him, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes the disgrace [of his taunting] from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he has taunted and defied the armies of the living God?”
1 Samuel 17:36
Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, since he has taunted and defied the armies of the living God.”
Psalm 42:2
My soul (my life, my inner self) thirsts for God, for the living God.
When will I come and see the face of God?
Psalm 84:2
My soul (my life, my inner self) longs for and greatly desires the courts of the Lord;
My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.
Isaiah 2:17-21
Then the pride of man will be humbled
And the arrogance of men will be degraded;
The Lord alone shall be exalted in that day,
Isaiah 37:4
It may be that the Lord your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh [the commander], whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to taunt and defy the living God, and will avenge the words which the Lord your God has heard. Therefore, offer a prayer for the remnant [of His people] that is left.’”
Isaiah 37:17
Incline Your ear, O Lord, and hear; open Your eyes, O Lord, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib that he has sent to taunt and defy the living God.
Jeremiah 10:10
But the Lord is the true God and the God who is Truth;
He is the living God and the everlasting King.
The earth quakes and shudders at His wrath,
And the nations are not able to endure His indignation.
Jeremiah 16:19
[Then said Jeremiah] “O Lord, my Strength and my Stronghold,
And my Refuge in the day of distress and need,
The nations will come to You
From the ends of the earth and say,
‘Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies and illusion,
[Worthless] things in which there is no benefit!’
Daniel 6:26
I issue a decree that in all the dominion of my kingdom men are to [reverently] fear and tremble before the God of Daniel,
And His kingdom is one which will not be destroyed,
And His dominion will be forever.
Hosea 1:10
Yet the number of the
Shall be like the sand of the sea,
Which cannot be measured or numbered;
And in the place
Where it is said to them,
“You are not My people,”
It will be said to them,
“You are the sons of the living God.”
Zephaniah 2:11
The Lord will be terrifying and awesome to them, for He will starve all the gods of the earth; and all the coastlands of the nations will bow down and worship Him, everyone from his own place.
Zechariah 8:20-23
“Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘It will come to pass that peoples and the inhabitants of many cities will come [to Jerusalem].
Malachi 1:11
For
Acts 26:17-18
[choosing you for Myself and]
Romans 9:26
“And it shall be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘you are not My people,’
There they shall be called sons of the living God.”
2 Corinthians 6:16-17
What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said:
And I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
Galatians 4:8-9
But at that time, when you did not know [the true] God and were unacquainted with Him, you [Gentiles] were slaves to those [pagan] things which by [their very] nature were not and could not be gods at all.
1 Thessalonians 1:5-6
for our good news [regarding salvation] came to you not only in word, but also in [its inherent] power and in the Holy Spirit and with great conviction [on our part]. You know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your benefit.
1 Thessalonians 2:13
And we also thank God continually for this, that when you received the word of God [concerning salvation] which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of [mere] men, but as it truly is, the word of God, which is effectually at work in you who believe [exercising its inherent, supernatural power in those of faith].
1 Timothy 4:10
It is for this that we labor and strive [often called to account], because we have fixed our [confident] hope on the living God, who is the
Hebrews 12:22
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels [in festive gathering],
Revelation 17:2
she with whom the kings of the earth have