Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know.

General references

Bible References

We told

John 16:1
These things, have I spoken unto you, that ye may not be caused to stumble:
Acts 20:24
But, for no cause whatever, am I making my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry which I have received from the Lord Jesus, to bear full witness as to the good news of the favour of God.

Even

1 Thessalonians 2:2
But, though we had previously suffered, and been insulted, even as ye know, in Philippi, we waxed bold in our God to speak unto you the glad-message of God with much conflict.
Acts 17:1
And, travelling through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews;
2 Corinthians 8:1
Moreover we make known unto you, brethren, the favour of God which hath been given in the assemblies of Macedonia, -
2 Thessalonians 1:4
So that, we ourselves, in you, are boasting, in the assemblies of God, over your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations which ye are sustaining: -

General references

Ecclesiastes 2:20
Then resolved I, to give my heart over to despair, - concerning all the toil, wherein I had toiled, under the sun.
Luke 21:13
But it shall turn out to you for a witness.