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

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

But none of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

But even after we had suffered before and were spitefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we were bold in our God to speak the gospel of God to you in much conflict.

For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus. For you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, just as they did from the Judeans,

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

But the Jews who were not persuaded, becoming envious, took some of the baser sort from the marketplace, and gathering a mob, set all the city in an uproar and came upon the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.

whom Jason has received, and these are all acting contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying there is another king, Jesus.

So when they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.

Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia:

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

so that we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and afflictions that you endure,

since it is righteous judgment with God to repay with affliction those who trouble you,