1 Thessalonians 2:18

For we wanted to come to you (I, Paul, in fact tried again and again) ¹  but Satan thwarted us.

Job 33:14; Zec 3:1,2; Ro 1:13; Ro 15:22; 1Co 16:21; 2Co 11:12-14; Php 4:16; Col 4:18; 2Th 3:17; Phm 1:9; Re 2:10; Re 12:9-12

¹ tn Or “several times”; Grk, “both once and twice.” The literal expression “once and twice” is frequently used as a Greek idiom referring to an indefinite low number, but more than once (“several times”); see L&N 60.70.