1 Thessalonians 3:4
For truly, when we were with you, we told you before that we were going to suffer affliction, as it also happened, even you know.
1 Thessalonians 2:14
For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus. For you also have suffered these things by your own countrymen, even as they also by the Jews;
John 16:1-3
I have spoken these things to you so that you should not be offended.
Acts 17:1
And traveling through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.
Acts 17:5-9
But the disobeying Jews becoming jealous, and having taken aside some wicked men of the market-loafers, and gathering a crowd, they set all the city in an uproar. And coming on the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the mob.
Acts 17:13
But when the Jews from Thessalonica knew that the Word of God was preached by Paul at Berea, they came there also and stirred up the people.
Acts 20:24
But none of these things move me, neither do I count my life dear to myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus Christ, to testify fully the gospel of the grace of God.
2 Corinthians 8:1-2
And, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given among the churches of Macedonia;
1 Thessalonians 2:2
But also suffering before, being insulted in Philippi, as you know, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in much agony.
2 Thessalonians 1:4-6
so much so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God, for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations which you endure.