Through him we have received grace and our apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles on behalf of his name.

You also are among them, called to belong to Jesus Christ.

I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that I often intended to come to you (and was prevented until now), so that I may have some fruit even among you, just as I already have among the rest of the Gentiles.

Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.

For just as it is written, "the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you."

because those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.

Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them and participated in the richness of the olive root,

and thus the Gentiles glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "Because of this I will confess you among the Gentiles, and I will sing praises to your name."

For Macedonia and Achaia are pleased to make some contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.