⁸ For the word of the Lord rang out from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place that your faith^[a](A) in God has gone out. Therefore, we don’t need to say anything,

⁷ By the same word,^(A) the present heavens and earth are stored up for fire, being kept for the day of judgement^(B) and destruction of the ungodly.