1 Thessalonians 1:9 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,

1:9 ESV

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English Standard Version - 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,
新标点和合本 - 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，
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 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，
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 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，
当代译本 - 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，
圣经新译本 - 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，
中文标准译本 - 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，
现代标点和合本 - 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，
和合本（拼音版） - 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，归向上帝，要服侍那又真又活的上帝，
New International Version - 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,
New International Reader's Version - 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.
New Living Translation - 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.
Christian Standard Bible - 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
New American Standard Bible - 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,
New King James Version - 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,
Amplified Bible - For they themselves report about us, telling what kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,
American Standard Version - 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,
King James Version - 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;
New English Translation - For people everywhere report how you welcomed us and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God
World English Bible - 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,
新標點和合本 - 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，
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 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，
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 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，
當代譯本 - 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，
聖經新譯本 - 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，
呂振中譯本 - 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，
中文標準譯本 - 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，
現代標點和合本 - 因為他們自己已經報明我們是怎樣進到你們那裡，你們是怎樣離棄偶像歸向神，要服侍那又真又活的神，
文理和合譯本 - 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、
文理委辦譯本 - 其言我至爾處、爾棄偶像、歸真有永生上帝以事之、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 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、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 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、
Nueva Versión Internacional - Ellos mismos cuentan de lo bien que ustedes nos recibieron, y de cómo se convirtieron a Dios dejando los ídolos para servir al Dios vivo y verdadero,
현대인의 성경 - 이것은 우리가 여러분을 방문했을 때 여러분이 우리를 어떻게 환영해 주었으며 어떻게 여러분이 우상을 버리고 하나님께 돌아와 살아 계신 참 하나님을 섬기며 또 죽은 사람들 가운데서 다시 살아나신 예수님이 하늘로부터 다시 오실 날을 여러분이 기다리고 있다는 것을 모든 사람들이 다 말하고 있기 때문입니다. 앞으로 하나님의 노여우심에서 우리를 구해 주실 분은 이 예수님밖에 없습니다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Так как уже другие рассказывают нам о том, как вы нас приняли и как вы оставили идолов и обратились к живому и истинному Богу, чтобы служить Ему
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交叉引用

Romans 9:26 - “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.’”
Hebrews 12:22 - But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,
Revelation 17:2 - with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk.”
Isaiah 37:4 - It may be that the Lord your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words that the Lord your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’”
Jeremiah 16:19 - O Lord, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit.
Psalms 84:2 - My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.
Malachi 1:11 - For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name will be great among the nations, says the Lord of hosts.
Isaiah 37:17 - Incline your ear, O Lord, and hear; open your eyes, O Lord, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God.
Acts 26:17 - delivering you from your people and from the Gentiles—to whom I am sending you
Acts 26:18 - to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
1 Samuel 17:36 - Your servant has struck down both lions and bears, and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.”
Jeremiah 10:10 - But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.
1 Thessalonians 1:5 - because our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction. You know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake.
1 Thessalonians 1:6 - And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit,
Deuteronomy 5:26 - For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of fire as we have, and has still lived?
1 Samuel 17:26 - And David said to the men who stood by him, “What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”
Hosea 1:10 - Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, “Children of the living God.”
Zephaniah 2:11 - The Lord will be awesome against them; for he will famish all the gods of the earth, and to him shall bow down, each in its place, all the lands of the nations.
Isaiah 2:17 - And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled, and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low, and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
Isaiah 2:18 - And the idols shall utterly pass away.
Isaiah 2:19 - And people shall enter the caves of the rocks and the holes of the ground, from before the terror of the Lord, and from the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.
Isaiah 2:20 - In that day mankind will cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats,
Isaiah 2:21 - to enter the caverns of the rocks and the clefts of the cliffs, from before the terror of the Lord, and from the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.
Psalms 42:2 - My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
Acts 14:15 - “Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men, of like nature with you, and we bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.
2 Corinthians 6:16 - What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
2 Corinthians 6:17 - Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you,
Daniel 6:26 - I make a decree, that in all my royal dominion people are to tremble and fear before the God of Daniel, for he is the living God, enduring forever; his kingdom shall never be destroyed, and his dominion shall be to the end.
Zechariah 8:20 - “Thus says the Lord of hosts: Peoples shall yet come, even the inhabitants of many cities.
Zechariah 8:21 - The inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, ‘Let us go at once to entreat the favor of the Lord and to seek the Lord of hosts; I myself am going.’
Zechariah 8:22 - Many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of the Lord.
Zechariah 8:23 - Thus says the Lord of hosts: In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”
1 Thessalonians 2:1 - For you yourselves know, brothers, that our coming to you was not in vain.
1 Thessalonians 2:13 - And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.
1 Corinthians 12:2 - You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led.
Galatians 4:8 - Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods.
Galatians 4:9 - 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 elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?
1 Timothy 4:10 - For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.

逐节对照

交叉引用

English Standard Version - 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,
新标点和合本 - 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，
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 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，
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 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，
当代译本 - 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，
圣经新译本 - 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，
中文标准译本 - 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，
现代标点和合本 - 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，
和合本（拼音版） - 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，归向上帝，要服侍那又真又活的上帝，
New International Version - 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,
New International Reader's Version - 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.
New Living Translation - 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.
Christian Standard Bible - 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
New American Standard Bible - 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,
New King James Version - 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,
Amplified Bible - For they themselves report about us, telling what kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,
American Standard Version - 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,
King James Version - 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;
New English Translation - For people everywhere report how you welcomed us and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God
World English Bible - 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,
新標點和合本 - 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，
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 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，
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 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，
當代譯本 - 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，
聖經新譯本 - 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，
呂振中譯本 - 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，
中文標準譯本 - 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，
現代標點和合本 - 因為他們自己已經報明我們是怎樣進到你們那裡，你們是怎樣離棄偶像歸向神，要服侍那又真又活的神，
文理和合譯本 - 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、
文理委辦譯本 - 其言我至爾處、爾棄偶像、歸真有永生上帝以事之、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 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、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 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、
Nueva Versión Internacional - Ellos mismos cuentan de lo bien que ustedes nos recibieron, y de cómo se convirtieron a Dios dejando los ídolos para servir al Dios vivo y verdadero,
현대인의 성경 - 이것은 우리가 여러분을 방문했을 때 여러분이 우리를 어떻게 환영해 주었으며 어떻게 여러분이 우상을 버리고 하나님께 돌아와 살아 계신 참 하나님을 섬기며 또 죽은 사람들 가운데서 다시 살아나신 예수님이 하늘로부터 다시 오실 날을 여러분이 기다리고 있다는 것을 모든 사람들이 다 말하고 있기 때문입니다. 앞으로 하나님의 노여우심에서 우리를 구해 주실 분은 이 예수님밖에 없습니다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Так как уже другие рассказывают нам о том, как вы нас приняли и как вы оставили идолов и обратились к живому и истинному Богу, чтобы служить Ему
Восточный перевод - Так как уже другие рассказывают нам о том, как вы нас приняли и как вы оставили идолов и обратились к живому и истинному Богу, чтобы служить Ему
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Romans 9:26 - “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.’”
Hebrews 12:22 - But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,
Revelation 17:2 - with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk.”
Isaiah 37:4 - It may be that the Lord your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words that the Lord your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’”
Jeremiah 16:19 - O Lord, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit.
Psalms 84:2 - My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.
Malachi 1:11 - For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name will be great among the nations, says the Lord of hosts.
Isaiah 37:17 - Incline your ear, O Lord, and hear; open your eyes, O Lord, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God.
Acts 26:17 - delivering you from your people and from the Gentiles—to whom I am sending you
Acts 26:18 - to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
1 Samuel 17:36 - Your servant has struck down both lions and bears, and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.”
Jeremiah 10:10 - But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.
1 Thessalonians 1:5 - because our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction. You know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake.
1 Thessalonians 1:6 - And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit,
Deuteronomy 5:26 - For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of fire as we have, and has still lived?
1 Samuel 17:26 - And David said to the men who stood by him, “What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”
Hosea 1:10 - Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, “Children of the living God.”
Zephaniah 2:11 - The Lord will be awesome against them; for he will famish all the gods of the earth, and to him shall bow down, each in its place, all the lands of the nations.
Isaiah 2:17 - And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled, and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low, and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
Isaiah 2:18 - And the idols shall utterly pass away.
Isaiah 2:19 - And people shall enter the caves of the rocks and the holes of the ground, from before the terror of the Lord, and from the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.
Isaiah 2:20 - In that day mankind will cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats,
Isaiah 2:21 - to enter the caverns of the rocks and the clefts of the cliffs, from before the terror of the Lord, and from the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.
Psalms 42:2 - My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
Acts 14:15 - “Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men, of like nature with you, and we bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.
2 Corinthians 6:16 - What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
2 Corinthians 6:17 - Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you,
Daniel 6:26 - I make a decree, that in all my royal dominion people are to tremble and fear before the God of Daniel, for he is the living God, enduring forever; his kingdom shall never be destroyed, and his dominion shall be to the end.
Zechariah 8:20 - “Thus says the Lord of hosts: Peoples shall yet come, even the inhabitants of many cities.
Zechariah 8:21 - The inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, ‘Let us go at once to entreat the favor of the Lord and to seek the Lord of hosts; I myself am going.’
Zechariah 8:22 - Many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of the Lord.
Zechariah 8:23 - Thus says the Lord of hosts: In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”
1 Thessalonians 2:1 - For you yourselves know, brothers, that our coming to you was not in vain.
1 Thessalonians 2:13 - And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.
1 Corinthians 12:2 - You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led.
Galatians 4:8 - Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods.
Galatians 4:9 - 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 elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?
1 Timothy 4:10 - For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.