1 Thessalonians 3:4
for we told you beforehand, when we were with you, that "we Christians are to have trouble" ??and, as you know, it has been so.)
1 Thessalonians 2:14
for you have started, my brothers, to copy the churches of God in Christ Jesus throughout Judaea; you have suffered from your compatriots just as they have suffered from the Jews,
John 16:1-3
I have told you all this, to keep you from being repelled.
Acts 17:1
Travelling on through Amphipolis and Apollonia they reached Thessalonica. Here there was a Jewish synagogue,
Acts 17:5-9
But the Jews were aroused to jealousy; they got hold of some idle rascals to form a mob and set the town in an uproar; they attacked Jason's house in the endeavour to bring them out before the populace,
Acts 17:13
But when the Jews of Thessalonica heard that Paul was proclaiming the word of God at Beroea as well, they came to create a disturbance and a riot among the crowds at Beroea too.
Acts 20:24
But then, I set no value on my own life as compared with the joy of finishing my course and fulfilling the commission I received from the Lord Jesus to attest the gospel of the grace of God.
2 Corinthians 8:1-2
Now, brothers, I have to tell you about the grace God has given to the churches of Macedonia.
1 Thessalonians 2:2
At Philippi, as you know, we had been ill-treated and insulted, but we took courage and confidence in our God to tell you the gospel of God in spite of all the strain.
2 Thessalonians 1:4-6
So much so, that throughout the churches of God we are proud of you, proud of the stedfastness and faith you display through all the persecutions and the troubles in which you are involved.