Verse 4

For indeed, when we were with you, we kept telling you in advance that we would suffer tribulation, just as it happened, and as you know.

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  • 1 Thess 2:14 : 14 For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, because you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews.
  • 1 Thess 2:2 : 2 Despite suffering and being mistreated in Philippi, as you know, we were bold in our God to proclaim to you the gospel of God while facing intense opposition.
  • Acts 20:24 : 24 'But I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish my course and the ministry I received from the Lord Jesus—to testify to the gospel of God’s grace.'
  • 2 Cor 8:1-2 : 1 Now we want you to know, brothers and sisters, about the grace of God that has been given to the churches of Macedonia. 2 In the midst of a severe trial brought by affliction, their overflowing joy and their deep poverty overflowed into abundant generosity.
  • John 16:1-3 : 1 I have told you these things so that you will not fall away. 2 They will ban you from the synagogue. But the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God. 3 They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.
  • Acts 17:13 : 13 But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that Paul was preaching the Word of God in Berea as well, they came there too, agitating and stirring up the crowds.
  • 2 Thess 1:4-6 : 4 As a result, we ourselves boast about you among the churches of God for your endurance and faith in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring. 5 This is evidence of God's righteous judgment, so that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering. 6 Since it is just for God to repay those who trouble you with affliction,
  • Acts 17:1 : 1 After passing through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.
  • Acts 17:5-9 : 5 But the Jews, becoming jealous, gathered some wicked men from the marketplace, formed a mob, and caused an uproar in the city. They attacked Jason's house, seeking to bring Paul and Silas out to the assembly. 6 When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some other believers before the city rulers, shouting, 'These men who have turned the world upside down have now come here too.' 7 And Jason has welcomed them. They are all acting contrary to Caesar's decrees, saying that there is another king—Jesus. 8 They stirred up the crowd and the city rulers as they heard these things. 9 After receiving a pledge from Jason and the others, they released them.