1 Thessalonians 1:6 KJV — MannaFest

1 Thessalonians 1:6

And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:

KJV

Parallel translations

4 additional translations

▾

ASV

And ye became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit;

WEB

And you became imitators of us and of the Lord when you welcomed the message with the joy of the Holy Spirit, in spite of your great suffering.

YLT

and ye--ye did become imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

DBT

and ye became our imitators, and of the Lord, having accepted the word in much tribulation with joy of [the] Holy Spirit,

About this book

New Testament

▾

1 Thessalonians — Paul's earliest letter. Thanksgiving for a young church's faith, and plain teaching on holy living and the return of Christ.

Author: Paul, with Silvanus and Timothy (1:1)
Date: c. AD 50–51, from Corinth

Book overview →Read full book →Read chapter 1 →

⋯

Commentary voices

loading…

Cross-references

45 verses on the floor

1 Timothy 4:12
Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
1 Corinthians 11:1
Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
Hebrews 13:7
Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
Acts 13:52
And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost.
1 Corinthians 4:16
Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.

Show all 45 cross-references ▾

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Cross-references

loading…

Voices3

On this verse

Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

All of them were devoted and dedicated to God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: to God as their chief good and highest end, to Jesus Christ as their Lord and Mediator between God and man. God the Father is the original centre of all natural religion; and Jesus Christ is the author and centre of all revealed religion.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Herein they became also followers of the Lord, who is the perfect example we must strive to imitate; and we should be followers of others no further than they are followers of Christ, 1 Co. xi.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

And ye--answering to "For our Gospel," 1Th 1:5. followers--Greek, "imitators." The Thessalonians in their turn became "ensamples" (1Th 1:7) for others to imitate. of the Lord--who was the apostle of the Father, and taught the word, which He brought from heaven, under adversities [BENGEL].

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

On this verse

loading…

Words6

Word trails from this verse

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

G234744× in canon G547958× in canon G40220× in canon G3056329× in canon G4183367× in canon G4151378× in canon

The quotation web

loading…

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

1TH 1:6GAL 5:22 COL 3:12-17
1TH 1:6GAL 5:22 1CO 13:4-7
1TH 1:6GAL 5:22 JHN 15:5
1TH 1:6GAL 5:22 JAS 3:17-18
1TH 1:6GAL 5:22 JHN 15:2
1TH 1:61CO 11:1 PHP 3:17
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
1TH 1:62TH 3:9 2TH 3:7
1TH 1:61CO 11:1 EPH 5:1-2

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

Where the connections lead

loading…

Continue: 1 Thessalonians 1 →