1 Thessalonians 2:13-14

English Standard Version

¹³And ^(A)we also thank God constantly^[a] for this, that when you received ^(B)the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it ^(C)not as the word of men^[b] but as what it really is, the word of God, ^(D)which is at work in you believers. ¹⁴For you, brothers, ^(E)became imitators of ^(F)the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For ^(G)you suffered the same things from your own countrymen ^(H)as they did from the Jews,^[c]

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Footnotes

1 Thessalonians 2:13 Or without ceasing
1 Thessalonians 2:13 The Greek word anthropoi can refer to both men and women
1 Thessalonians 2:14 The Greek word Ioudaioi can refer to Jewish religious leaders, and others under their influence, who opposed the Christian faith in that time