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. That we should suffer tribulation - I prepared you for it, because I knew that it was according to their nature for wicked men to persecute the followers of God.
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1 Thessalonians 3:4
4 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.