Study it in the app“For from you the word of the Lord has sounded forth not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith toward God has gone out, so that we have no need to say anything.”
Forγὰρfromἀφ’youὑμῶνthe wordὁ λόγοςof the Lordτοῦ κυρίουhas sounded forthἐξήχηταιnotοὐonlyμόνονinἐνMacedoniaτῇ ΜακεδονίᾳandκαὶAchaia,Ἀχαΐᾳbutἀλλ’inἐνeveryπαντὶplaceτόπῳyourὑμῶνfaithἡ πίστιςtowardἡ πρὸςGodτὸν θεὸνhas gone out,ἐξελήλυθενso thatὥστεwe haveἔχειν ἡμᾶςnoμὴneedχρείανto sayλαλεῖνanything.τι
message
What God says, proclaimed to people.
Where else “logos” appearsLord
The Lord: God, whose name is YHWH; also Jesus.
Where else “kyriou” appearsring out
Ring out, sound forth everywhere like an echo.
Where else “exēchētai” appearsonly
Nothing beyond that: bread is not enough to live.
Where else “monon” appearsMacedonia
See it on the mapWhere else “Makedoniai” appearsAchaia
See it on the mapWhere else “Achaiai” appearsplace
A specific spot where something is or happens.
Where else “topōi” appearstrust
Truly trusting in God or in Jesus.
Where else “pistis” appearsGod
The Creator and Lord of all, the one God of Israel.
Where else “theon” appearsspread
To come from somewhere; for news to spread.
Where else “exelēlythen” appearsso that
So much that, to the point that.
Where else “hōste” appearshave
To count something or someone as one's own: goods, family, faith, power.
Where else “echein” appearsneed
What is lacking, required.
Where else “chreian” appearstell
To tell someone something, announce it.
Where else “lalein” appears1Macedonia
Today: northern Greece, plus North Macedonia and Bulgaria
A region of northern Greece, by the north of the Aegean Sea.
Paul saw in a vision a man begging, "Come over to Macedonia and help us" (Acts 16:9). There he started the assemblies in Philippi, Thessalonica and Berea (Acts 16–17).
2Achaia
Today: southern Greece (Peloponnese and Attica)
A Roman province in southern Greece, with Corinth as its main city.
The believers of Achaia gave for the poor in Jerusalem (Rom 15:26). Paul wrote his second letter to Corinth "with all the saints in Achaia" (2 Cor 1:1).
7so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia.
8 · This verse (above)
9For they themselves report about us what kind of welcome we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve as slaves a living and true God,
