Now I want you to know, brothers, that I often planned to come to you (but was prevented until now) in order that I might have a fruitful ministry among you, just as among the rest of the Gentiles.

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!

For no one will be justified in His sight by the works of the law, because the knowledge of sin comes through the law.

For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

For I am persuaded that not even death or life,
angels or rulers,
things present or things to come, hostile powers,

For this is the statement of the promise: At this time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.

What should we say then? Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained righteousness—namely the righteousness that comes from faith.

But the righteousness that comes from faith speaks like this: Do not say in your heart, “Who will go up to heaven?” that is, to bring Christ down

So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the message about Christ.

I ask, then, have they stumbled in order to fall? Absolutely not! On the contrary, by their stumbling, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel jealous.

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,

So that you will not be conceited, brothers, I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery: A partial hardening has come to Israel until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.

And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written:

The Liberator will come from Zion;
He will turn away godlessness from Jacob.

But now I no longer have any work to do in these provinces, and I have strongly desired for many years to come to you

I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ.

and that, by God’s will, I may come to you with joy and be refreshed together with you.