1 Thessalonians 3:4 (WEB)
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.
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“…of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us”: and in another place, “we are to suffer affliction” that we may be patient in all things that befall us, for “he that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.”” — editor's note: 1 Th. iii. 4, R.V.
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