8  For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every ^aplace your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.

  2  For verily I say unto you, blessed is he that keepeth my commandments, whether in life or in death; and he that is ^cfaithful in tribulation, the reward of the same is greater in the kingdom of heaven.

  14  For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have ^bsuffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews: