1 Thessalonians 2:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.

1 Thessalonians 2:18 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 15:22
For which cause also I have been much hindered from coming to you.
Romans 1:13
Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you,(but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.
Revelation 2:10
Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
Zechariah 3:1-2
And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him. …
2 Corinthians 11:12-14
But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-20)

In these words the apostle apologizes for his absence. Here observe, 1. He tells them they were involuntarily forced from them: We, brethren, were taken from you, 1 Thess. 2:17. Such was the rage of his persecutors. He was unwillingly sent away by night to Berea, Acts 17:10. 2. Though he was absent in body, yet he was present in heart. He had still a remembrance of them, and great care for them. 3…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 18)

18. Wherefore--The oldest manuscripts read, “Because,” or “Inasmuch as.” we would--Greek, “we wished to come”; we intended to come. even I Paul--My fellow missionaries as well as myself wished to come; I can answer for myself that I intended it more than once. His slightly distinguishing himself here from his fellow missionaries, whom throughout this Epistle he associates with himself in the plura…