Kehillah in Thessalonika I 2:18-20

Orthodox Jewish Bible

¹⁸ For we wanted to come to you. Indeed I, [Rav] Sha’ul, did again and again; but Hasatan hindered us.

¹⁹ For who is our tikvah or simcha or crown to glory in before Adoneinu Yehoshua at His Parousia, at the Bias Moshiach‖is it not you?

²⁰ For you are our kavod and simcha.