For people everywhere report how you welcomed us and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God

因为他们自己已经报明我们是怎样进到你们那里，你们是怎样离弃偶像，归向神，要服侍那又真又活的神，

因为他们自己已经传讲我们是怎样进到你们那里，你们是怎样离弃偶像，归向上帝来服侍那又真又活的上帝，

因为他们自己已经传讲我们是怎样进到你们那里，你们是怎样离弃偶像，归向神来服侍那又真又活的神，

因为人们都在传讲你们如何接待我们，如何离弃偶像归向上帝，事奉又真又活的上帝，

他们都述说你们是怎样接待我们，而且怎样离弃偶像归向神，要服事这位又真又活的神，

其实他们自己在宣扬有关我们的事，说我们是怎样进到你们那里，你们是怎样离弃偶像归向神、服事又活又真的神，

因為他們自己已經報明我們是怎樣進到你們那裏，你們是怎樣離棄偶像，歸向神，要服事那又真又活的神，

因為他們自己已經傳講我們是怎樣進到你們那裏，你們是怎樣離棄偶像，歸向上帝來服侍那又真又活的上帝，

因為他們自己已經傳講我們是怎樣進到你們那裏，你們是怎樣離棄偶像，歸向神來服侍那又真又活的神，

因為人們都在傳講你們如何接待我們，如何離棄偶像歸向上帝，事奉又真又活的上帝，

他們都述說你們是怎樣接待我們，而且怎樣離棄偶像歸向神，要服事這位又真又活的神，

因為他們自己正在傳布我們的事、說我們到你們中間是怎樣受了歡迎，你們又怎樣離棄了偶像，轉向上帝、來服事一位永活而真的上帝，

其實他們自己在宣揚有關我們的事，說我們是怎樣進到你們那裡，你們是怎樣離棄偶像歸向神、服事又活又真的神，

蓋彼自言我如何入於爾中、爾如何棄像而歸上帝、以事生且真之上帝、

其言我至爾處、爾棄偶像、歸真有永生上帝以事之、

蓋彼眾自言我儕如何至爾處、爾如何棄偶像、而歸永生之真天主、

外間頗有人嘖嘖稱道吾儕如何獲爾之心、爾等如何拋棄偶像、歸依聖教、兢兢業業、奉事永生真實之天主、

for they themselves report what kind of reception you gave us. They tell how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,

The believers themselves report the kind of welcome you gave us. They tell about how you turned away from statues of gods. And you turned to serve the living and true God.

For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,

for they keep talking about the wonderful welcome you gave us and how you turned away from idols to serve the living and true God.

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

For 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,

For they themselves declare concerning us what manner of entry we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,

For they themselves report concerning us what manner of entering in we had unto you; and how ye turned unto God from idols, to serve a living and true God,

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

For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;

For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,

In fact this is why we work hard and struggle, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of believers.

You know that when you were pagans you were often led astray by speechless idols, however you were led.

Formerly when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods at all.But now that you have come to know God( or rather to be known by God), how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless basic forces? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?

And so we too constantly thank God that when you received God’s message that you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human message, but as it truly is, God’s message, which is at work among you who believe.

For you yourselves know, brothers and sisters, about our coming to you– it has not proven to be purposeless.

“ Men, why are you doing these things? We too are men, with human natures just like you! We are proclaiming the good news to you, so that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them.

And what mutual agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said,“ I will live in them and will walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”Therefore“ come out from their midst, and be separate,” says the Lord,“ and touch no unclean thing, and I will welcome you,

I have issued an edict that throughout all the dominion of my kingdom people are to revere and fear the God of Daniel.“ For he is the living God; he endures forever. His kingdom will not be destroyed; his authority is forever.

I thirst for God, for the living God. I say,“ When will I be able to go and appear in God’s presence?”

The LORD who rules over all says,‘ It will someday come to pass that people– residents of many cities– will come.The inhabitants of one will go to another and say,“ Let’s go up at once to ask the favor of the LORD, to seek the LORD who rules over all. Indeed, I’ll go with you.”’Many peoples and powerful nations will come to Jerusalem to seek the LORD who rules over all and to ask his favor.The LORD who rules over all says,‘ In those days ten people from all languages and nations will grasp hold of– indeed, grab– the robe of one Jew and say,“ Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.”’”

Who is there from the entire human race who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the middle of the fire as we have, and has lived?

I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending youto open their eyes so that they turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

For from the east to the west my name will be great among the nations. Incense and pure offerings will be offered in my name everywhere, for my name will be great among the nations,” says the LORD who rules over all.

Pay attention, LORD, and hear! Open your eyes, LORD, and observe! Listen to this entire message Sennacherib sent and how he taunts the living God!

Your servant has struck down both the lion and the bear. This uncircumcised Philistine will be just like one of them. For he has defied the armies of the living God!”

David asked the men who were standing near him,“ What will be done for the man who strikes down this Philistine and frees Israel from this humiliation? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he defies the armies of the living God?”

Proud men will be humiliated, arrogant men will be brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.The worthless idols will be completely eliminated.They will go into caves in the rocky cliffs and into holes in the ground, trying to escape the dreadful judgment of the LORD and his royal splendor, when he rises up to terrify the earth.At that time men will throw their silver and gold idols, which they made for themselves to worship, into the caves where rodents and bats live,so they themselves can go into the crevices of the rocky cliffs and the openings under the rocky overhangs, trying to escape the dreadful judgment of the LORD and his royal splendor, when he rises up to terrify the earth.

( 2: 1) However, in the future the number of the people of Israel will be like the sand of the sea which can be neither measured nor numbered. Although it was said to them,“ You are not my people,” it will be said to them,“ You are children of the living God!”

I desperately want to be in the courts of the LORD’s temple. My heart and my entire being shout for joy to the living God.

Then I said,“ LORD, you give me strength and protect me. You are the one I can run to for safety when I am in trouble. Nations from all over the earth will come to you and say,‘ Our ancestors had nothing but false gods– worthless idols that could not help them at all.

in that our gospel did not come to you merely in words, but in power and in the Holy Spirit and with deep conviction( surely you recall the character we displayed when we came among you to help you).And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, when you received the message with joy that comes from the Holy Spirit, despite great affliction.

The LORD is the only true God. He is the living God and the everlasting King. When he shows his anger the earth shakes. None of the nations can stand up to his fury.

Perhaps the LORD your God will hear all these things the chief adviser has spoken on behalf of his master, the king of Assyria, who sent him to taunt the living God. When the LORD your God hears, perhaps he will punish him for the things he has said. So pray for this remnant that remains.’”

The LORD will terrify them, for he will weaken all the gods of the earth. All the distant nations will worship the LORD in their own lands.

“ And in the very place where it was said to them,‘ You are not my people,’ there they will be called‘ sons of the living God.’”

with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality and the earth’s inhabitants got drunk with the wine of her immorality.”

But you have come to Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the assembly