1 Thessalonians 3:4
For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.
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1 Thessalonians 3:4
For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.
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Deuteronomy 4:30
When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God and listen to his voice.
Matthew 24:21
for then there will be great suffering, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.
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Acts 17:6
When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,
Acts 17:7
whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!”
Acts 17:8
The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.
2 Corinthians 8:1
Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia,
1 Thessalonians 2:17
But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,
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John 16:2
They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.
Romans 8:17
and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
Romans 8:36
Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
2 Thessalonians 1:6
For it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,
1 Peter 4:13
But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.
1 Peter 4:14
If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.
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