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,

For you, brothers, followed the example of God's churches in Judea that are in union with Christ Jesus, for you in your turn had to bear the same ill-treatment from your neighbors as they did from the Jews,

try to keep us from speaking to the heathen so that they may be saved, so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But God's wrath has overtaken them at last!

Hold them in the highest esteem and affection for what they do. Live at peace with one another.