For when we were with you, we kept telling you beforehand that we were to suffer affliction, (A)just as it has come to pass, and just as you know. For this reason, (B)when I could bear it no longer, (C)I sent to learn about your faith, (D)for fear that somehow (E)the tempter had tempted you and (F)our labor would be in vain.

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