For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.
From you sounded out the word of the Lord. Not that they actually became missionaries; but by the report spread of their "faith" (cf. Romans 1:8), and by Christian merchants of Thessalonica bearing in various directions "the word of the Lord," they were virtually missionaries, recommending the Gospel to all within their influence by word and by example (1 Thessalonians 1:7). "Sounded" [exechetai] is an image from a trumpet filling with its clear-sounding echo all the surrounding places.
Also. 'Aleph (') A B C Delta G f g, Vulgate, omit.
In every place. Aquila and Priscilla, who had just come from Rome to Corinth, probably informed Paul of the report of the Thessalonian faith having reached the metropolis of the world (Acts 18:2).
To God-ward - no longer directed to idols.
So that we need not to speak any thing - to them in praise of your faith; "for (1 Thessalonians 1:9) they themselves" (the people in Macedonia and Achaia) know it already.