And you followed the pattern set you by us and by the Master, after you had received the Message amid severe persecution, and yet with the joy which the Holy Spirit gives,

so that you became a pattern to all the believers throughout Macedonia and Greece.

and above all make your own life a pattern of right conduct, having in your teaching no taint of insincerity, but a serious tone,

and serve a copy and type of the heavenly things, just as Moses was divinely instructed when about to build the tabernacle. For God said, "See that you make everything in imitation of the pattern shown you on the mountain."