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For people everywhere[a] report how you welcomed us[b] and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God 10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus our deliverer from the coming wrath.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 1:9 tn Grk “they themselves,” referring to people in the places just mentioned.
  2. 1 Thessalonians 1:9 tn Grk “what sort of entrance we had to you” (an idiom for how someone is received).
  3. 1 Thessalonians 1:10 sn The coming wrath. This wrath is an important theme in 1 Thess 5.

for they themselves report what kind of reception you gave us. They tell how you turned(A) to God from idols(B) to serve the living and true God,(C) 10 and to wait for his Son from heaven,(D) whom he raised from the dead(E)—Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath.(F)

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