always entreating him that now at length, if such be his will, the way may be made clear for me to come to you.

I want you to know, brothers, that many a time I have planned to come to you??hough until now I have been hindered??o as to have some harvest-fruit among you also, even as I have among the rest of the Gentiles.

And why not say (as I myself am slanderously reported to say), "Let us do evil that good may come out of it"? Such arguments are rightly condemned.

For no man will be justified in God's sight by works of the Law; for through the Law comes the consciousness of sin.

since all have sinned and lack the glory which comes from God;

For the promise that he should be heir of the world did not come to Abraham or to his posterity through law, but through faith-righteousness.

Nevertheless, from Adam to Moses death reigned as king, even over those who had not sinned after the likeness of Adam's transgression. Now Adam is a type of Him who was to come.

What then shall we say? Shall we continue to abound in sin, in order that grace may come to abound?

For I am fully persuaded that neither death nor life, Neither angels nor principalities, nor powers, Neither the present world nor the world to come, Nor the powers of Nature,

For thus is the word of promise, According to this season I will come, and Sarah shall bear a son.

So faith comes from a message heard, and the message comes from the teaching of Christ.

I ask then, "Have they stumbled so as to fall?" No indeed; but by their lapse salvation has come unto Gentiles, "to provoke Israel to jealousy."

For I would not, my brothers, have you ignorant of this hidden truth, for fear that you become wise in your own conceits. that a hardening in part has befallen Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles is come in.

And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written. The deliver will come from Zion, He will banish all ungodliness from Jacob;

But now, since I have no more any "opening" in these parts, and since I have longed for many years to come to you

When, therefore, I have settled this, and have secured to them the poor at Jerusalem the fruit of this collection, I shall come on by you into Spain.

And I know that when I come to you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of Christ.

and that I may come to you in joy, by the will of God, and find rest together with you.