Thematic Bible: Why God’s people suffer

We ought to return thanks to God always for you, brethren, as is fitting, for your faith increases exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all enlarges to one another; So that we ourselves boast in you in all the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your expulsions and pressures which ye endure: (A proof of the just judgment of God,) for you to be deemed worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer: