For I want very much to see you, so I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you,

What then? If some did not believe, will their unbelief cancel God’s faithfulness?

And why not say, just as some people slanderously claim we say, “Let us do what is evil so that good may come”? Their condemnation is deserved!

if I can somehow make my own people jealous and save some of them.

Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, though a wild olive branch, were grafted in among them and have come to share in the rich root of the cultivated olive tree,

Nevertheless, I have written to remind you more boldly on some points because of the grace given me by God