Paul’s Plan to Visit Rome

²² This is the reason that I have so often been hindered from coming to you.

¹³ I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest among you, as I have among the rest of the gentiles.

Paul’s Desire to Visit the Thessalonians Again

¹⁷ As for us, brothers and sisters, when for a short time we were made orphans by being separated from you—in person, not in heart—we longed with great eagerness to see you face to face.^{(A) 18} For we wanted to come to you—certainly I, Paul, wanted to again and again—but Satan blocked our way.^(B)