But I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that I often intended to come to you (and was prevented until now), so that I might have some fruit also among you, even as among the other Gentiles.

What fruit therefore did ye have then, of which things ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

But now having been made free from sin, and having become servile to God, ye have your fruit for sanctification, and the end, eternal life.

Therefore, my brothers, ye also became dead to the law through the body of Christ in order for ye to become to another, to him who was raised from the dead, so that we would bear fruit to God.

For when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins were working in our body-parts (through the law) in order to bear fruit to death.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus freed me from the law of sin and of death.

Because the creation itself will also be freed from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

And not only so, but also ourselves who have the first fruit of the Spirit. And we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

And if the first fruit is holy, the branch is also. And if the root is holy, the branches are also.

Having therefore completed this, and having sealed this fruit for them, I will depart by you to Spain.

Salute Epaenetus my beloved who is the first fruit of Achaia for Christ.