asking that somehow by God's will I may now at last find the way to come to you.

I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that I often planned to come to you (but have been prevented from doing so until now) in order that I might have some harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles.

Why not say as we are being slanderously reported as saying and as some claim that we say "Let us do evil that good may come"? Their condemnation is just.

Therefore no flesh will be justified in his sight by works of the law, for through the law comes knowledge of sin.

Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all his descendantsnot only to those who are of the law but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, for he is the father of us all

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sins were not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.

For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,

For, being ignorant of the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

So I ask, have they stumbled so as to fall? Certainly not! But through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make Israel jealous.

I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.

And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The Deliverer will come from Zion, he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;

But now, since I no longer have any place for work in these regions, and since I have longed for many years to come to you,

They were pleased to do it, and indeed they are in debt to them. For if the Gentiles have come to share in their spiritual blessings, they ought also to be of service to them in material blessings.

And I know that when I come to you, I shall come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ.

so that by God's will I may come to you with joy, and together with you be refreshed.