Romans 15:22

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²²This is why I have often been hindered from coming to you.^(A)

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Romans 1:13

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¹³I 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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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.

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1 Thessalonians 2:17-18

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Paul’s Longing to See the Thessalonians

¹⁷But, brothers and sisters, when we were orphaned by being separated from you for a short time (in person, not in thought),^(A) out of our intense longing we made every effort to see you.^(B) ¹⁸For we wanted to come to you—certainly I, Paul, did, again and again—but Satan^(C) blocked our way.^(D)