Even in Thessalonica you sent me help for my needs once and again.
For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.
because we wanted to come to you -- I, Paul, again and again -- but Satan hindered us.
And let our people learn to devote themselves to good works, so as to help cases of urgent need, and not be unfruitful.