¹⁶ For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity.

⁹ For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

17 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews:

¹⁸ Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.