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

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.

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.

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

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.

And then, dear brothers and sisters, you suffered persecution from your own countrymen. In this way, you imitated the believers in God’s churches in Judea who, because of their belief in Christ Jesus, suffered from their own people, the Jews.

You know how badly we had been treated at Philippi just before we came to you and how much we suffered there. Yet our God gave us the courage to declare his Good News to you boldly, in spite of great opposition.

But my life is worth nothing to me unless I use it for finishing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus— the work of telling others the Good News about the wonderful grace of God.

Now I want you to know, dear brothers and sisters, what God in his kindness has done through the churches in Macedonia.They are being tested by many troubles, and they are very poor. But they are also filled with abundant joy, which has overflowed in rich generosity.

But when some Jews in Thessalonica learned that Paul was preaching the word of God in Berea, they went there and stirred up trouble.

We proudly tell God’s other churches about your endurance and faithfulness in all the persecutions and hardships you are suffering.And God will use this persecution to show his justice and to make you worthy of his Kingdom, for which you are suffering.In his justice he will pay back those who persecute you.

“ I have told you these things so that you won’t abandon your faith.For you will be expelled from the synagogues, and the time is coming when those who kill you will think they are doing a holy service for God.This is because they have never known the Father or me.

But some of the Jews were jealous, so they gathered some troublemakers from the marketplace to form a mob and start a riot. They attacked the home of Jason, searching for Paul and Silas so they could drag them out to the crowd.Not finding them there, they dragged out Jason and some of the other believers instead and took them before the city council.“ Paul and Silas have caused trouble all over the world,” they shouted,“ and now they are here disturbing our city, too.And Jason has welcomed them into his home. They are all guilty of treason against Caesar, for they profess allegiance to another king, named Jesus.”The people of the city, as well as the city council, were thrown into turmoil by these reports.So the officials forced Jason and the other believers to post bond, and then they released them.

Paul and Silas then traveled through the towns of Amphipolis and Apollonia and came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.