Furthermore, I want you to know, brothers, that I have often planned to come to see you (though until now I have been prevented), in order that I may gather some fruit among you too, as I have among the rest of the heathen.

But glory, honor, and peace will come to everyone who practices doing good, the Jew first and then the Greek;

Why should we not say, as people abusively say of us, and charge us with actually saying, "Let us do evil that good may come from it"? Their condemnation is just.

But now God's way of giving men right standing with Himself has come to light; a way without connection with the law, and yet a way to which the law and the prophets testify.

For everybody has sinned and everybody continues to come short of God's glory,

Now does this happiness come to the Jews alone, or to the heathen peoples too? For we say, "Abraham's faith was credited to him as right standing."

And yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the way Adam had, against a positive command. For Adam was a figure of Him who was to come.

the patriarchs, and from them by natural descent the Christ has come, who is exalted over all, God blessed forever. Amen!

For this is the language of the promise, "About this time next year I will come back, and Sarah will have a son."

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

I say then, they did not stumble so as to fall in utter ruin, did they? Of course not! On the contrary, because of their stumbling, salvation has come to heathen peoples, to make the Israelites jealous.

But if their stumbling has resulted in the enrichment of the world, and their overthrow becomes the enrichment of heathen peoples, how much richer the result will be when the full quota of Jews comes in!

For to keep you from being self-conceited, brothers, I do not want to have a misunderstanding of this uncovered secret, that only temporary insensibility has come upon Israel until the full quota of the heathen peoples comes in,

and so in that way all Israel will be saved, just as the Scripture says: "From Zion the Deliverer will come; He will remove ungodliness from Jacob;

For from Him everything comes, through Him everything lives, and for Him everything exists. Glory to Him forever! Amen.

And again Isaiah says: "The noted Son of Jesse will come, even He who rises to rule the heathen; on Him the heathen will set their hope."

But now, as there are no more places for me to occupy in this part of the world, and as I have for many years been longing to come to see you,

So, after I have finished this matter and made sure of the results of this contribution for them, I shall come by you on my way to Spain.

And I feel sure that when I do come to you, I shall come with Christ's abundant blessing on me.

so that, if it is God's will, I may come with a happy heart to see you and have a refreshing rest while with you.