For I long to see you, in order to impart to you some spiritual gift and so give you fresh strength--

for a matter He is finishing, and is cutting short in righteousness, because a matter cut short will the Lord do upon the land.

See, then, the kindness and the severity of God: upon them who have fallen, severity, - but, upon thee, the kindness of God, if thou abide still in the kindness, - otherwise, thou also, shalt he cut out;

For, if, thou, out of the naturally wild olive was cut out, and, beyond nature, hast been engrafted into the good olive, how much rather, shall these, the natural branches be engrafted into their own olive tree?

For I could almost wish to be cursed and cut off from the Messiah for the benefit of my brothers, my own flesh and blood.