For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again unto my necessity.
Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews:
Therefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.
For you remember, brethren, our labor and travail: for laboring night and day, because we would not be a burden unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
And let our own also learn to maintain good works for urgent needs, that they not be unfruitful.