4 Bible Verses about Hindering God's Work

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come to you (and was hindered hitherto), that I might have some fruit in you also, even as in the rest of the gentiles.

Wherefore, also, I was being hindered many times from coming to you;

forbidding us to speak to the gentiles, that they might be saved, for the filling up of their sins always; and the wrath came upon them to the uttermost.

Because we wished to come to you, even I, Paul, both once and again; and Satan hindered us.