For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to you for the establishing of you.

But I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that oftentimes I purposed to come to you, and was kept back until the present; that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other nations.

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, everyone who judges; for in that in which you judge another, you condemn yourself, for you who judge do the same things.

For what? If some did not believe, will not their unbelief nullify the faith of God?

And not rather, (as we are wrongly accused, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do bad things that good may come? Their condemnation is just.

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "Even for this same purpose I have raised you up, that I might show My power in you, and that My name might be declared throughout all the earth."

Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel to honor and another to dishonor?

For there is no difference both of Jew and of Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call on Him.

if by any means I may provoke those who are my flesh to jealousy, and might save some of them.

And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and became a sharer of the root and the fatness of the olive tree with them,

For even as we have many members in one body, and all members do not have the same function,

minding the same thing toward one another, not minding high things, but yielding to the lowly. Do not be wise within yourselves.