Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that I have often purposed to come to you (but have been hitherto hindered) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.

For he that is dead is freed from sin.

What fruit had ye then in those things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

But now being made free from sin, and having become servants to God, ye have your fruit to holiness, and the end everlasting life.

Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit to God.

For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit to death:

For if the first fruit is holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go by you into Spain.