Thematic Bible: Why God’s people suffer

We ought to thank God always for you, brothers, as is fit, because your faith increases greatly, and the love of every one of you all one for another abounds, so that we boast of you in the churches of God, of your patience and faith, in all your persecutions and the afflictions which you endure, a token of the righteous judgment of God that you should be deemed worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer,