²² Wherefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you:

¹³ And I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you (and was hindered hitherto), that I might have some fruit in you also, even as in the rest of the Gentiles.

¹⁷ But we, brethren, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence not in heart, endeavored the more exceedingly to see your face with great desire:

¹⁸ because we would fain have come unto you, I Paul once and again; and Satan hindered us.