so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia.

For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, because you too suffered the same [kind of] persecution from your own countrymen, as they did from the Jews,

Therefore, when we could no longer endure our separation [from you], we thought it best to be left behind, alone at Athens,