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1 Thessalonians 2:1-2

Courage amid conflict

A Ministry That Shares Its Life · 1 Thessalonians 2

Story guide: The gospel is spoken boldly despite suffering and shameful treatment. This is an interpretive visual essay, not a record of an otherwise unreported event.

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1For you yourselves know, brothers, that our coming to you was not in vain,

2But after we had already suffered and been shamefully mistreated, as you know, in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak the gospel of God to you amid much conflict.

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