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1 Thessalonians 3:4

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

because when we were with you, we told you this would happen. And we did suffer, as you well know.

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But I have warned you beforehand.

After Paul and his friends had travelled through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they went on to Thessalonica. A Jewish meeting place was in that city.

When the Jewish leaders in Thessalonica heard that Paul had been preaching God's message in Berea, they went there and caused trouble by turning the crowds against Paul.

But I don't care what happens to me, as long as I finish the work that the Lord Jesus gave me to do. And that work is to tell the good news about God's great kindness.

My friends, you did just like God's churches in Judea and like the other followers of Christ Jesus there. And so, you were ill-treated by your own people, in the same way they were ill-treated by their people.

As you remember, we had been ill-treated and insulted at Philippi. But God gave us the courage to tell you the good news about him, even though many people caused us trouble.

Don't you remember that I told you this while I was still with you?

We also gave you the rule that if you don't work, you don't eat.




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