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.

¹ 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.