New Revised Standard Version
In fact, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we were to suffer persecution; so it turned out, as you know.

Contemporary English Version
because when we were with you, we told you this would happen. And we did suffer, as you well know.

New American Bible
For even when we were among you, we used to warn you in advance that we would undergo affliction, just as has happened, as you know.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For even when we were with you, we foretold you that we should suffer tribulations: as also it is come to pass, and you know.

For even when we were with you, we foretold you that we should suffer tribulations: as also it is come to pass, and you know.

we told.

John 16:1-3 These things have I spoken to you things have I spoken to you that you may not be scandalized. . . .

Acts 20:24 But I fear none of these things, neither do I count my life more precious than myself, so that I may consummate my course and the ministry of the word which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

even.

1 Thessalonians 2:2,14 But having suffered many things before and been shamefully treated, (as you know) at Philippi, we had confidence in our God, to speak unto you the gospel of God in much carefulness. . . .

Acts 17:1,5-9,13 And when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. . . .

2 Corinthians 8:1,2 Now we make known unto you, brethren, the grace of God that hath been given in the churches of Macedonia. . . .

2 Thessalonians 1:4-6 So that we ourselves also glory in you in the churches of God, for your patience and faith, and in all your persecutions and tribulations: which you endure . . .