Verse 18

For we wanted to come to you—indeed I, Paul, tried again and again—but Satan hindered us.

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 15:22 : 22 This is why I have often been hindered from coming to you.
  • Rom 1:13 : 13 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you (but was prevented until now), in order that I might have some fruit among you, just as I have among the other Gentiles.
  • Rev 2:10 : 10 Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Look, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison to test you, and you will suffer tribulation for ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.
  • Rev 12:9-9 : 9 The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him. 10 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: 'Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Messiah. For the accuser of our siblings, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down.' 11 They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death. 12 Therefore rejoice, you heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has come down to you! He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short.
  • Job 33:14 : 14 For God speaks in one way and in two, yet no one perceives it.
  • Zech 3:1-2 : 1 Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right side to accuse him. 2 And the LORD said to Satan, 'The LORD rebuke you, Satan! The LORD, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you! Is this man not like a burning stick snatched from the fire?'
  • Matt 4:10 : 10 Then Jesus said to him, 'Go away, Satan! For it is written: You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only shall you serve.'
  • 2 Cor 11:12-14 : 12 And I will keep on doing what I am doing, so that I can cut off the opportunity of those who want an opportunity to be regarded as our equals in the things they boast about. 13 For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
  • Phil 4:16 : 16 For even when I was in Thessalonica, you sent me aid more than once to meet my needs.
  • Col 4:18 : 18 I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. Remember my chains. Grace be with you. Amen.
  • 2 Thess 3:17 : 17 This greeting is in my own hand—Paul. This is the mark in every letter of mine; this is how I write.
  • 1 Cor 16:21 : 21 This greeting is in my own hand—Paul.