In fact, when we were with you, we told you previously that we were going to suffer persecution, and as you know, it happened.

我们在你们那里的时候，预先告诉你们，我们必受患难，以后果然应验了，你们也知道。

我们在你们那里的时候，曾预先告诉你们，我们必受患难；你们知道，这果然发生了。

我们在你们那里的时候，曾预先告诉你们，我们必受患难；你们知道，这果然发生了。

我们在你们那里时曾预先告诉过你们，我们会遭遇患难，你们知道后来果然如此。

我们在你们那里的时候，早已对你们说过，我们将会遭受患难。后来应验了，这是你们知道的。

事实上，我们还在你们那里的时候，早就不断地告诉你们，我们将要受患难，这果然应验了，就像你们所知道的那样。

我們在你們那裏的時候，預先告訴你們，我們必受患難，以後果然應驗了，你們也知道。

我們在你們那裏的時候，曾預先告訴你們，我們必受患難；你們知道，這果然發生了。

我們在你們那裏的時候，曾預先告訴你們，我們必受患難；你們知道，這果然發生了。

我們在你們那裡時曾預先告訴過你們，我們會遭遇患難，你們知道後來果然如此。

我們在你們那裡的時候，早已對你們說過，我們將會遭受患難。後來應驗了，這是你們知道的。

我們在你們那裏的時候，就屢次先告訴你們說、我們將會受患難；事實正如所說的，你們也知道。

事實上，我們還在你們那裡的時候，早就不斷地告訴你們，我們將要受患難，這果然應驗了，就像你們所知道的那樣。

我偕爾時、預告我儕將受難、後果如是、爾所知也、

我素偕爾、預語我儕必受難、後果如是、此爾所知、

我儕偕爾時、預言我儕必將受難、後果如是、此爾所知也、

嚮者吾與爾俱、早已預告吾人必有憂患、今果見驗、亦爾等之所親歷也。

In fact, when we were with you, we kept telling you that we would be persecuted. And it turned out that way, as you well know.

In fact, when we were with you, here is what we kept telling you. We were telling you that our enemies would make us suffer. As you know very well, it has turned out that way.

For when we were with you, we kept telling you beforehand that we were to suffer affliction, just as it has come to pass, and just as you know.

Even while we were with you, we warned you that troubles would soon come— and they did, as you well know.

In fact, when we were with you, we told you in advance that we were going to experience affliction, and as you know, it happened.

For even when we were with you, we kept telling you in advance that we were going to suffer affliction; and so it happened, as you know.

For, in fact, we told you before when we were with you that we would suffer tribulation, just as it happened, and you know.

For verily, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction; even as it came to pass, and ye know.

For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know.

For in fact when we were with you, we were telling you in advance that we would suffer affliction, and so it has happened, as you well know.

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.

For you, brothers, became imitators of God’s churches in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, since you have also suffered the same things from people of your own country, just as they did from the Jews

On the contrary, after we had previously suffered, and we were treated outrageously in Philippi, as you know, we were emboldened by our God to speak the gospel of God to you in spite of great opposition.

But I count my life of no value to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of God’s grace.

We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God granted to the churches of Macedonia:During a severe testing by affliction, their abundance of joy and their deep poverty overflowed into the wealth of their generosity.

But when the Jews from Thessalonica found out that God’s message had been proclaimed by Paul at Berea, they came there too, agitating and disturbing the crowds.

Therefore, we ourselves boast about you among God’s churches— about your endurance and faith in all the persecutions and afflictions you endure.It is a clear evidence of God’s righteous judgment that you will be counted worthy of God’s kingdom, for which you also are suffering,since it is righteous for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you

“ I have told you these things to keep you from stumbling.They will ban you from the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering service to God.They will do these things because they haven’t known the Father or Me.

But the Jews became jealous, and they brought together some scoundrels from the marketplace, formed a mob, and started a riot in the city. Attacking Jason’s house, they searched for them to bring them out to the public assembly.When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city officials, shouting,“ These men who have turned the world upside down have come here too,and Jason has received them as guests! They are all acting contrary to Caesar’s decrees, saying that there is another king— Jesus!”The Jews stirred up the crowd and the city officials who heard these things.So taking a security bond from Jason and the others, they released them.

Then they traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia and came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.