Bible Cross References
we told
John 16:1-3
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"I have told you this, so that you will not give up your faith.
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You will be expelled from the synagogues, and the time will come when those who kill you will think that by doing this they are serving God.
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People will do these things to you because they have not known either the Father or me.
Acts 20:24
But I reckon my own life to be worth nothing to me; I only want to complete my mission and finish the work that the Lord Jesus gave me to do, which is to declare the Good News about the grace of God.
even
1 Thessalonians 2:2
You know how we had already been mistreated and insulted in Philippi before we came to you in Thessalonica. And even though there was much opposition, our God gave us courage to tell you the Good News that comes from him.
1 Thessalonians 2:14
Our friends, the same things happened to you that happened to the churches of God in Judea, to the people there who belong to Christ Jesus. You suffered the same persecutions from your own people that they suffered from the Jews,
Acts 17:1
Paul and Silas traveled on through Amphipolis and Apollonia and came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue.
Acts 17:5-9
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But some Jews were jealous and gathered worthless loafers from the streets and formed a mob. They set the whole city in an uproar and attacked the home of a man named Jason, in an attempt to find Paul and Silas and bring them out to the people.
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But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some other believers before the city authorities and shouted, "These men have caused trouble everywhere! Now they have come to our city,
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and Jason has kept them in his house. They are all breaking the laws of the Emperor, saying that there is another king, whose name is Jesus."
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With these words they threw the crowd and the city authorities in an uproar.
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The authorities made Jason and the others pay the required amount of money to be released, and then let them go.
Acts 17:13-9
2 Corinthians 8:1
Our friends, we want you to know what God's grace has accomplished in the churches in Macedonia.
2 Corinthians 8:2
They have been severely tested by the troubles they went through; but their joy was so great that they were extremely generous in their giving, even though they are very poor.
2 Thessalonians 1:4-6
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That is why we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God. We boast about the way you continue to endure and believe through all the persecutions and sufferings you are experiencing.
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All of this proves that God's judgment is just and as a result you will become worthy of his Kingdom, for which you are suffering.
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God will do what is right: he will bring suffering on those who make you suffer,