“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.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. 1 Thessalonians 3 contains 13 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.