¹⁶ Even in Thessalonica you sent me help for my needs once and again.

⁹ For you remember, brothers, ^(A)our labor and toil: we ^(B)worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

Paul and Silas in Thessalonica

17 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to ^(A)Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.

¹⁸ because we wanted to come to you—I, Paul, again and again—but Satan ^(A)hindered us.