I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that often I have planned to come to you (and have been prevented so far) so that I may obtain some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

And why not say (as we are slanderously reported and as some claim that we say), “Let us do evil that good may come”? Their condemnation is just.

because by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law comes the knowledge of sin.

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.

What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, “You shall not covet.”

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

For this is the word of promise: “At this time I will come, and Sarah shall have a son.”

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

In the same way then, there has also come to be at the present time a remnant according to God’s gracious choice.

I say then, they did not stumble so as to fall, did they? May it never be! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make them jealous.

For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery—so that you will not be wise in your own estimation—that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in;

and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written,
“The Deliverer will come from Zion,
He will remove ungodliness from Jacob.”

Again Isaiah says,
“There shall come the root of Jesse,
And He who arises to rule over the Gentiles,
In Him shall the Gentiles hope.”

but now, with no further place for me in these regions, and since I have had for many years a longing to come to you

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

so that I may come to you in joy by the will of God and find refreshing rest in your company.