and terrified in nothing by your adversaries, which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

that no man should be moved by these afflictions; for you yourselves know that thereunto we are appointed.

For verily, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we should suffer tribulation, even as it came to pass, as ye know.

which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the Kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer.