1 Thessalonians 3:4
for when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we were going to be pressed with difficulties, and it took place, as you know.
1 Thessalonians 2:14
For you, brothers, followed the example of God's churches in Judea that are in union with Christ Jesus, for you too have suffered the same sort of ill-treatment at the hands of your fellow-countrymen as they did at the hands of the Jews,
John 16:1-3
"I have told you these things to keep you from falling over stumbling blocks.
Acts 17:1
Now they traveled on through Amphipolis and Apollonia until they reached Thessalonica. Here there was a Jewish synagogue.
Acts 17:5-9
But this enraged the Jews; so they got together some wicked loafers about the public square, formed a mob, and set the town in an uproar.
Acts 17:13
But when the Jews at Thessalonica learned that God's message had been proclaimed at Berea by Paul, they came there too to excite the masses and stir up a riot.
Acts 20:24
But now I count as nothing the sacrifice of my life, if only I can finish my race and render the service entrusted to me by the Lord Jesus, of faithfully telling the good news of God's favor.
2 Corinthians 8:1-2
Now I am going to tell you, brothers, of God's spiritual blessing which was given in the churches of Macedonia,
1 Thessalonians 2:2
But, although we had just suffered and been insulted, as you remember, at Philippi, we again summoned courage by the help of God, in spite of the terrific strain, to tell you God's good news.
2 Thessalonians 1:4-6
so that we are always boasting of you among the churches of God for your patient endurance and faith, in spite of your persecutions and crushing sorrows which you are enduring.