13 (A)I do not want you to be unaware, (B)brothers and sisters, that often I (C)have planned to come to you (and have been prevented so far) so that I may obtain some (D)fruit among you also just as among the rest of the Gentiles.

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13 I do not want you to be unaware,(A) brothers and sisters,[a](B) that I planned many times to come to you (but have been prevented from doing so until now)(C) in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 1:13 The Greek word for brothers and sisters (adelphoi) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God’s family; also in 7:1, 4; 8:12, 29; 10:1; 11:25; 12:1; 15:14, 30; 16:14, 17.

18 [a]For (A)we wanted to come to you—I, Paul, [b](B)more than once—and (C)Satan (D)hindered us.

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  1. 1 Thessalonians 2:18 Or Because
  2. 1 Thessalonians 2:18 Lit both once and twice

18 For we wanted to come to you—certainly I, Paul, did, again and again—but Satan(A) blocked our way.(B)

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