For most assuredly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.
And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all [man] men, even as we do toward you: To the end he may establish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all the saints ( 1 Thessalonians 3:12-13 ).