Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you;
that the word of the Lord may have free course: In 1 Thessalonians 1:7-8, we learn that through the believers at Thessalonica the word of the Lord had spread to all the neighboring villages throughout that region. "In every place your faith is known." Paul is now asking the believers to pray that the same things might be true in Corinth, Achaia, Macedonia, and wherever the good news of the gospel goes forth. Paul knows the enemy who has fought the Thessalonians would also fight desperately in these new mission fields. He wants the spiritually-minded children of God in Thessalonica to pray for the work of the missionaries that the work would be just as successful in other congregations as it had been in Thessalonica (see 1 Thessalonians 3:7-8).