1 Thessalonians 3:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ In fact, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we were to suffer persecution; so it turned out, as you know.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ For even when we were with you, [you know] we warned you plainly beforehand that we were to be pressed with difficulties and made to suffer affliction, just as to your own knowledge it has [since] happened.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ 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.

Common English Bible

⁴ In fact, when we were with you, we kept on predicting that we were going to face problems exactly like what happened, as you know.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ For even while we were with you, we predicted to you that we would suffer tribulations, even as it has happened, and as you know.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ For even when we were with you, we foretold you that we should suffer tribulations, as also it is come to pass, and you know.

1 Thessalonians 3:4 Cross References

Matthew 24:25

Take note, I have told you beforehand.

Acts 17:1

After Paul and Silas had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.

Acts 17:13

But when the Jews of Thessalonica learned that the word of God had been proclaimed by Paul in Beroea as well, they came there, too, to stir up and incite the crowds.

Acts 20:24

But I do not count my life of any value to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God’s grace.

1 Thessalonians 2:14

For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, for you suffered the same things from your own compatriots as they did from the Jews

1 Thessalonians 2:2

but though we had already suffered and been shamefully mistreated at Philippi, as you know, we had courage in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in spite of great opposition.

2 Thessalonians 2:5

Do you not remember that I told you these things when I was still with you?

2 Thessalonians 3:10

For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: anyone unwilling to work should not eat.