we were.

1 Thessalonians 3:8, 9
For now we can go on living, as long as you are standing firm in the Lord. . . .

2 Corinthians 1:4
who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.

2 Corinthians 7:6, 7, 13
But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the arrival of Titus, . . .

2 John 1:4
I was overjoyed to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father has commanded us.

in all.

Acts 17:4-10
Some of the Jews were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large number of God-fearing Greeks and quite a few leading women. . . .

1 Corinthians 4:9-13
For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men. . . .

2 Corinthians 11:23-28
Are they servants of Christ? I am speaking like I am out of my mind, but I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death. . . .

2 Timothy 3:10-12
You, however, have observed my teaching, my conduct, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance, . . .