1 Thessalonians 1:8 Cross References - Moffatt

⁸ for the word of the Lord has resounded from you not only through Macedonia and Achaia — no, your faith in God has reached every place. We never need to speak about it.

⁸ First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because the report of your faith is over all the world.

¹⁴ But how are they to invoke One in whom they do not believe? And how are they to believe in One of whom they have never heard? And how are they ever to hear, without a preacher? ¹⁵ And how can men preach unless they are sent? — as it is written, How pleasant is the coming of men with glad, good news! ¹⁶ But they have not all given in to the gospel of glad news? No, Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed what they heard from us? ¹⁷ (You see, faith must come from what is heard, and what is heard comes from word of Christ.) ¹⁸ But, I ask, "Have they never heard?" Indeed they have. Their voice carried over all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.

¹⁹ Everyone has heard of your loyalty to the gospel; it makes me rejoice over you. Still, I want you to be experts in good and innocents in evil.

³⁶ You challenge this rule? Pray, did God's word start from you? Are you the only people it has reached?

⁴ Such is the confidence I possess through Christ in my service of God.

⁴ So much so, that throughout the churches of God we are proud of you, proud of the stedfastness and faith you display through all the persecutions and the troubles in which you are involved.

¹ Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed on and triumph, as in your own case,

¹² Everybody testifies to Demetrius, and so does the Truth itself: I testify to him too, and you know my testimony is true.

⁶ Then I saw another angel flying in mid-heaven with an eternal gospel for the inhabitants of the earth, for every nation and tribe and tongue and people;

¹⁷ "Come," say the Spirit and the Bride: let the hearer too say, "Come"; and let the thirsty come, let anyone who desires it, take the water of Life without price.