1 Thessalonians 3:4
For even when we were with you, we told you beforehand, "We are about to suffer tribulation"; even as also it came to pass, and ye know.
1 Thessalonians 2:14
For ye, brethren, became imitators of the assemblies of God, that are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; because ye suffered the same things from your own countrymen, as they also did from the Jews;
John 16:1-3
"These things have I spoken to you, that ye be not made to stumble.
Acts 17:1
And, having passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews;
Acts 17:5-9
But the Jews, moved with jealousy, and taking to themselves certain evil men of the rabble, and gathering a multitude, were setting the city in an uproar; and, assaulting the house of Jason, they were seeking them to lead them, forth to the populace.
Acts 17:13
But, when the Jews from Thessalonica knew that also in Beraea the word of God was proclaimed by Paul, they came there also, stirring up and troubling the multitudes,
Acts 20:24
But I make not my soul of any value as dear to myself, so that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify the Gospel of the grace of God.
2 Corinthians 8:1-2
And we make known to you, brethren, the grace of God which has been bestowed in the assemblies of Macedonia;
1 Thessalonians 2:2
but, having suffered before, and having been shamefully treated, as ye know, in Philippi, we grew 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 in the assemblies of God, for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations which ye endure;