1 Thessalonians 1:8 meaning and explanation
For not only did the message of the Lord ring out from you to Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith in God has gone out to every place, so that we have no need to say anything more.
1 Thessalonians 1:8, Berean Standard Bible
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Paul is writing with Silvanus and Timothy to a young church he founded in Thessalonica, and in verse 8 he tells them their reputation has outrun his own reporting. The Greek verb for "ring out," execheo, pictures a sound echoing outward, like a trumpet blast.
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