1 Thessalonians 1:6 DBY

⁴  knowing, brethren beloved by God, your election.

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:

⁸  for the word of the Lord sounded out from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith which [is] towards God has gone abroad, so that we have no need to say anything;