1 Thessalonians 3:4
for even when we were with you, we told you before that we are to suffer affliction, just as it came to pass, and ye know.
1 Thessalonians 2:14
For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; for ye also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, as they have from the Jews;
John 16:1-3
These things have I spoken to you, that ye may not fall away.
Acts 17:1
And when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was the synagogue of the Jews.
Acts 17:5-9
But the unbelieving Jews, taking with them certain bad men of the idlers in the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar; and having come to the house of Jason, they endeavored to bring them out to the people;
Acts 17:13
But when the Jews of Thessalonica knew that at Beroea, too, the word of God was preached by Paul, they came hither also, and stirred up the multitudes.
Acts 20:24
But I count life of no value to me, so that I may finish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the glad tidings of the grace of God.
2 Corinthians 8:1-2
Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God which hath been bestowed in the churches of Macedonia;
1 Thessalonians 2:2
but after we had suffered before and had been shamefully treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in much conflict.
2 Thessalonians 1:4-6
so that we ourselves glory in you among the churches of God, for your constancy and faith in all your persecutions and the afflictions which ye endure;