For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:
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Gill's Exposition
For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God,.... As of the Lord and of the apostle, Th1 1:6 so of the churches of God that were before them, who were gathered out of the world by the…
Barnes' Notes
For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judea are in Christ Jesus - Which are united to the Lord Jesus, or which are founded on his truth: that is, which are true churches.…
Adam Clarke
Ye - became followers of the Churches of God - There is not a word here of the Church of Rome being the model after which the other Churches were to be formed; it had no such pre-eminence: this honor…
Here observe, I. The apostle makes mention of the success of his ministry among these Thessalonians (Th1 2:13), which is expressed,
1. By the manner of their receiving the word of God: When you…
Cambridge Bible
For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judea are in Christ Jesus Followersshould be imitators (R. V.), just as in ch. 1Th 1:6: imitators of the apostles and of their Lord,…
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