Now I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that often I intended to come to you, and was prevented until now, in order that I might have some fruit among you also, just as also among the rest of the Gentiles.

For only rarely will someone die on behalf of a righteous person (for on behalf of a good person possibly someone might even dare to die),

Therefore, [did that which is] good become death to me? May it never be! Rather [it was] sin, in order that it might be recognized [as] sin, producing death through [what is] good for me, in order that sin might become sinful to an extraordinary degree through the commandment.

for [although they] had not yet been born, or done anything good or evil, in order that the purpose of God according to election might remain,

For the scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very [reason] I have raised you up, so that I may demonstrate my power in you, and so that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."

For Christ died and became alive again for this [reason], in order that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.