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for the word of the Lord sounded out from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith which [is] towards God has gone abroad, so that we have no need to say anything;
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and *ye* became our imitators, and of the Lord, having accepted the word in much tribulation with joy of [the] Holy Spirit,
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so that ye became models to all that believe in Macedonia and in Achaia:
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for the word of the Lord sounded out from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith which [is] towards God has gone abroad, so that we have no need to say anything;
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for they themselves relate concerning us what entering in we had to you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God,
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and to await his Son from the heavens, whom he raised from among the dead, Jesus, our deliverer from the coming wrath.