And I would not ye should be ignorant, brethren, that many times I proposed to come to you, (and I was hindered till this time,) that I might have some fruit also in you, and in the rest of the nations.

For as many as sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;

(As it has been written, That have set thee father of many nations,) over against him who believed God, making alive the dead, and calling things not being as being.

Who against hope believed upon hope, for him to become father of many nations, according to that said, So shall thy seed be.

But not as the fall, so also the favor. For if for the fall of one many died, much more the grace of God, and the gift in grace, of one man, Jesus Christ, has abounded to many.

And not as by one having sinned, the gift: for truly the judgment of one to condemnation, but the favor of many falls to justification.

For as by one man's disobedience many were constituted sinful, so also by the obedience of one shall many be constituted just.

Or know ye not, that as many of us as were immersed in Christ Jesus, we were immersed into his death?

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God.

For whom he before knew, he also before determined of the form of the image of his Son, for him to be first born in many brethren.

For as in one body we have many members, and all members have not the same action:

So we, the many, are one body in Christ, and the members for one another.

Wherefore also I was hindered in many things from coming to you.

And now having no more place in these climes, and having an anxious desire to come to you from many years.

That ye receive her in the Lord, worthy of the holy ones, and encourage her in whatever thing she have need of you: for she also has been the rule of many, and of myself.