1 Thessalonians 1:9

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Summary

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;

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Bible References

Ye

So human pride will be brought low,
and the loftiness of men will be humbled;
the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.

Lord, my strength and my stronghold,
my refuge in a time of distress,
the nations will come to You
from the ends of the earth, and they will say,
“Our fathers inherited only lies,
worthless idols of no benefit at all.”

The Lord will be terrifying to them
when He starves all the gods of the earth.
Then all the distant coastlands of the nations
will bow in worship to Him,
each in its own place.

The Lord of Hosts says this: “Peoples will yet come, the residents of many cities;

“For My name will be great among the nations, from the rising of the sun to its setting. Incense and pure offerings will be presented in My name in every place because My name will be great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Hosts.

“Men! Why are you doing these things? We are men also, with the same nature as you, and we are proclaiming good news to you, that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything in them.

I will rescue you from the people and from the Gentiles. I now send you to them

You know that when you were pagans, you used to be led off to the idols that could not speak.

But in the past, when you didn’t know God, you were enslaved to things that by nature are not gods.