8. For the Lord’s message rang out from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place that your faith in God has gone out. Therefore, we don’t need to say anything,
9. for they themselves report what kind of reception we had from you: how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God
10. and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead — Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath.