Bible Passage Scripture Block

For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.

For they [other Christians abroad] tell us about the reception from you, and how you have turned from serving idols to now serve the only true and living God while we all wait for His Son, who He raised from the dead, to return from heaven to deliver us from the wrath that is to come.

Paul’s introduction to the “church of the Thessalonians” (1:1), he recalls the events around their first hearing Paul bring them the gospel (Acts 17 during his second missionary journey) and the subsequent word he has received about them from other “believers in Macedonia and Achaia” (vs 7).