I want you to understand, brothers, that I have often intended to come to see you (though thus far I have been prevented) in order to produce some results among you, as well as among the rest of the heathen.

And why not say, as people abuse us for saying and charge us with saying, "Let us do evil that good may come out of it"? Such people will be condemned as they deserve!

Their feet are swift when it comes to shedding blood,

It is God's way of uprightness and comes through having faith in Jesus Christ, and it is for all who have faith, without distinction.

For all men sin and come short of the glory of God,

For the promise made to Abraham and his descendants that the world should belong to him did not come to him or his descendants through the Law, but through the uprightness that resulted from his faith.

Still death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned as Adam had, in the face of an express command. So Adam foreshadowed the one who was to come.

For this is what the promise said: "When I come back at this time next year, Sarah will have a son."

while Israel, straining after a law that should bring uprightness, did not come up to it.

So faith comes from hearing what is told, and that hearing comes through the message about Christ.

For to keep you from thinking too well of yourselves, brothers, I do not want you to miss this secret, that only partial insensibility has come upon Israel, to last until all the heathen have come in,

and then all Israel will be saved, just as the Scripture says, "The deliverer will come from Zion, He will drive all ungodliness away from Jacob,

For from him everything comes; through him everything exists; and in him everything ends! Glory to him forever! Amen.

May God, from whom steadfastness and encouragement come, give you such harmony with one another, in following the example of Christ Jesus,

Again Isaiah says, "The descendant of Jesse will come, The one who is to rise to rule the heathen; The heathen will set their hopes on him."

But now there is no more work for me in this part of the world, and as I have had a great desire for many years to come to see you,

So when I have finished this matter, and seen this contribution safely into their possession, I will start for Spain, and come to you on the way,

and I know that when I do come to see you, I will come with Christ's fullest blessing.

so that, if it is God's will, I may come with a glad heart to see you and enjoy a visit with you.