1 Thessalonians 3:4
For when we were with you, we told you before that we should be afflicted, as it came to pass, and ye know.
1 Thessalonians 2:14
For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God, which are in Judea, in Christ Jesus, in that ye also have suffered the same things from your own countrymen, as they have from the Jews:
John 16:1-3
These things have I spoken unto you, that ye may not be offended:
Acts 17:1
Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.
Acts 17:5-9
But the unbelieving Jews being filled with envy, collected some loose profligate fellows, and making a tumult set all the city in an uproar: and assaulting Jason's house, they sought for them in order to bring them out to the populace.
Acts 17:13
But when the Jews of Thessalonica knew that the word of God was preached by Paul at Berea, they came thither also, to stir up the people.
Acts 20:24
But none of these things move me, nor do I account my life dear, so that I may finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
2 Corinthians 8:1-2
Now we make known to you, brethren, the grace of God conferred on the churches of Macedonia:
1 Thessalonians 2:2
But though we had suffered before and been injuriously treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we spake boldly in the name of our God to declare unto you the gospel of God with much conflict.
2 Thessalonians 1:4-6
so that we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God, for your patience and faith under all your persecutions and afflictions which ye endure.