¹³ It shall turn out unto you for a testimony.

¹² Now I would have you know, brethren, that the things `which happened' unto me have fallen out rather unto the progress of the gospel;

²⁸ and in nothing affrighted by the adversaries: which is for them an evident token of perdition, but of your salvation, and that from God;

³ that no man be moved by these afflictions; for yourselves know that hereunto we are appointed.

⁴ For verily, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction; even as it came to pass, and ye know.

⁵ `which is' a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God; to the end that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer: