1 Thessalonians 1:5-7

Darby Translation

⁵ For our glad tidings were not with you in word only, but also in power, and in [the] Holy Spirit, and in much assurance; even as ye know what we were among you for your sakes:

⁶ and *ye* became our imitators, and of the Lord, having accepted the word in much tribulation with joy of [the] Holy Spirit,

⁷ so that ye became models to all that believe in Macedonia and in Achaia: