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. ¹ 

For you became imitators, brothers and sisters, ¹  of God’s churches in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, because you too suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they in fact did from the Jews,

But although we suffered earlier and were mistreated in Philippi, ¹  as you know, we had the courage in our God to declare to you the gospel of God ²  in spite of much opposition.

And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, when you received ¹  the message with joy that comes from the Holy Spirit, despite great affliction.

So ¹  in all our distress and affliction, we were reassured about you, brothers and sisters, ²  through your faith.

For God did not destine us for wrath ¹  but for gaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

so that no one would be shaken by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are destined for this.