But I wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, that I often purposed to come to you, and was hindered hitherto, that I might have some fruit also among you, as among the other gentiles.

I am a debtor both to the Greeks and the Barbarians, both to the wise and the ignorant;

because having known God they glorified him not as God neither were thankful, but became vain in their reasonings and their ignorant mind was darkened.

ARE you ignorant, brothers, for I speak to them who understand law, that the law has authority over a man as long as he lives?

For I wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery; that you may not be wise in your own conceit. For hardness in part has come upon Israel, till the fullness of the gentiles shall come in,