so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.
By reading all of Paul’s epistles we will find he took great joy in commending one church to another. Here he is thinking of the churches in Judea (1 Thessalonians 2:14) and in Syria. He and Silas are in correspondence with the churches there; and to these assemblies they have sent good news, expressing joy and satisfaction over the faith and devotion of this new church in Thessalonica.