For I am longing to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong,

but I see in my body a different principle waging war with the Law in my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin that exists in my body.

For we were saved with this hope in mind. Now a hope that can be observed is not really hope, for who hopes for what can be seen?

As it is written, "To this day God has put them into deep sleep. Their eyes do not see, and their ears do not hear."

Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and keep their backs forever bent."

Rather, as it is written, "Those who were never told about him will see, and those who have never heard will understand."

Now that I am on my way to Spain, I hope to see you when I come your way and, after I have enjoyed your company for a while, to be sent on by you.