1 Thessalonians 1:6-10

⁶You also became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word during great affliction with the joy of the Holy Spirit, ⁷so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia. ⁸For the word of the Lord has sounded forth from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place the news of your faith toward God has gone out, so that we have no need to say anything. ⁹For they themselves report about us as to the kind of reception we had with you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God, ¹⁰and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, that is, Jesus who rescues us from the wrath to come.