14 For you, brothers, ^vbecame imitators of ^wthe churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For ^xyou suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews,¹

3 that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that ^lwe are destined for this. 4 For when we were with you, we kept telling you beforehand that we were to suffer affliction, ^mjust as it has come to pass, and just as you know.