1 Thessalonians 3:4
for also, when we were with you, we told you beforehand we are about to be in tribulation, even as also it came to pass, and ye know.)
1 Thessalonians 2:14
For ye, brethren, have become imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; for ye also have suffered the same things of your own countrymen as also they of the Jews,
John 16:1-3
These things I have spoken unto you that ye may not be offended.
Acts 17:1
And having journeyed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was the synagogue of the Jews.
Acts 17:5-9
But the Jews having been stirred up to jealousy, and taken to themselves certain wicked men of the lowest rabble, and having got a crowd together, set the city in confusion; and having beset the house of Jason sought to bring them out to the people;
Acts 17:13
But when the Jews from Thessalonica knew that the word of God was announced in Berea also by Paul, they came there also, stirring up the crowds.
Acts 20:24
But I make no account of my life as dear to myself, so that I finish my course, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the glad tidings of the grace of God.
2 Corinthians 8:1-2
But we make known to you, brethren, the grace of God bestowed in the assemblies of Macedonia;
1 Thessalonians 2:2
but, having suffered before and been insulted, even as ye know, in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the glad tidings of God with much earnest striving.
2 Thessalonians 1:4-6
so that we ourselves make our boast in you in the assemblies of God for your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations, which ye are sustaining;