"These things I have spoken to you, so that you should not be made to stumble.

And these things they will do [to you] because they did not know the Father nor Me.

But I count myself as nothing; nor do I regard my life as valuable to myself, so that I may complete my course with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to bear solemn testimony to the gospel of the grace of God.

But suffering before and being spitefully treated at Philippi, just as you know, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God with much conflict.

For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because you suffered the same things from your fellow countrymen, just as also they did by the Jews,

Now traveling through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.

And the Jews who did not believe took some wicked men from the marketplace, and forming a mob, [they] threw the city into disorder, and came upon the house of Jason, and sought to bring them to the people.

whom Jason has received; and these all practice contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying there is another king--Jesus."

And having taken the security bond from Jason and the rest, they released them.

Now we make known to you brothers, the grace of God which has been given to the churches of Macedonia,

how that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded in the riches of their generosity.

so that we ourselves are boasting in you among the churches of God about your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that you endure,

since it is a righteous thing with God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,