²² For which reason I was frequently kept from coming to you:

¹³ You may be certain, my brothers, that it has frequently been in my mind to come to you (but till now I was kept from it), so that I might have some fruit from you in the same way as I have had it from the other nations.

¹⁷ But we, my brothers, being away from you for a short time, in body but not in heart, had all the more desire to see your face;

¹⁸ For which reason we made attempts to come to you, even I, Paul, once and again; but Satan kept us from coming.