1 Thessalonians 2:16-18

21st Century King James Version

¹⁶ forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles, that they might be saved, thus heaping up their sins always. But the wrath has come upon them to the uttermost!

¹⁷ But we, brethren, being taken away from you for a short time (in presence, but not in heart), endeavored the more abundantly and with great desire to see your face.

¹⁸ Therefore we would have come unto you — even I, Paul, time and again — but Satan hindered us.