Therefore (A)we ourselves boast about you (B)in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith (C)in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring.

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Therefore, among God’s churches we boast(A) about your perseverance and faith(B) in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring.(C)

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So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:

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14 For you, brothers, (A)became imitators of (B)the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For (C)you suffered the same things from your own countrymen (D)as they did from the Jews,[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 2:14 The Greek word Ioudaioi can refer to Jewish religious leaders, and others under their influence, who opposed the Christian faith in that time

14 For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators(A) of God’s churches in Judea,(B) which are in Christ Jesus: You suffered from your own people(C) the same things those churches suffered from the Jews

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14 For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:

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Live as You Are Called

17 Only let each person lead the life[a] (A)that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. (B)This is my rule in (C)all the churches.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 7:17 Or each person walk in the way

Concerning Change of Status

17 Nevertheless, each person should live as a believer in whatever situation the Lord has assigned to them, just as God has called them.(A) This is the rule I lay down in all the churches.(B)

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17 But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.

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32 (A)Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to (B)the church of God,

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32 Do not cause anyone to stumble,(A) whether Jews, Greeks or the church of God(B)

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32 Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:

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