Or hath not the potter a right over the clay - out of the same lump, to make some, indeed, into a vessel for honour, and some for dishonour?

I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that many times I have planned to come to you, (and have been prevented so far) so that I may have some fruit [of my labors] among you, even as I have among the rest of the Gentiles.

For scarcely for a righteous man will some man die, indeed perhaps for the good man some man would even dare to die.

If in some way I might make jealous my flesh, and I might save some of them.)

always entreating God that somehow by His will I may some day at last succeed in getting to see you.

For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;

What then, if some of them have proved unfaithful? Can their unfaithfulness make null and void God's faithfulness?

And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.

As Isaiah again has foretold, "Unless the Lord of hosts had left us some descendants, we would have fared as Sodom did and would have been like Gomorrah."

If some of the branches have been broken off, and yet you, although you were wild olive suckers, have been grafted in among the native branches, and been made to share the rich sap of the native olive's root,

And yet, to refresh your memories, I have written you rather freely on some details, because of the unmerited favor shown me by God

For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make some contribution for the poor of the saints at Jerusalem.