always in my prayers, requesting, if by any means now at last I may succeed by the will of God to come to you.

Now I do not desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

May it never be. Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, "That you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment."

Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil, that good may come?" Those who say so are justly condemned.

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

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren't like Adam's disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.

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

But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel.

For this is a word of promise, "At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son."

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be. But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

For I do not desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won't be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, "There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

but now, no longer having any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come to you,

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

that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and together with you, find rest.