So that ye became examples to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia.

For the word of the Lord sounded forth from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia; but also in every place your faith towards God is spread abroad, so that we have no need to say any thing of it.

For this also we thank God continually, that when ye received the word of God, which ye heard from us, ye received it not as the word of men, but (as it is in truth) the word of God, which also worketh effectually in you that believe.

For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God, which are in Judea, in Christ Jesus, in that ye also have suffered the same things from your own countrymen, as they have from the Jews:

Therefore let us not sleep like others, but let us watch and be sober:

See that no one render evil for evil to any man; but always pursue that which is good, both to each other and to all men.

yet try all things, and hold fast that which is good.