always in my prayers, making request if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come to you.

But I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that oftentimes I purposed to come to you, and was kept back until the present; that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other nations.

And not rather, (as we are wrongly accused, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do bad things that good may come? Their condemnation is just.

for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God,

But death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is the type of Him who was to come;

Therefore as by one offense sentence came on all men to condemnation, even so by the righteousness of One the free gift came to all men to justification of life.

For I was alive without the law once. But when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.

For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

For this is the word of promise: "At this time I will come and Sarah shall have a son."

Even so then, also in this present time a remnant according to the election of grace has come into being.

I say then, Did they not stumble that they fall? Let it not be! But by their slipping away came salvation to the nations, to provoke them to jealousy.

And so all Israel shall be saved; as it is written, "There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

But now, having no more place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come to you,

whenever I may go into Spain, I will come to you. For in traveling through I hope to see you, and to be set forward there by you, if first I may be filled of you in part.

Therefore when I have completed this, and have sealed this fruit to them, I will come by you into Spain.

And I am sure that when I come to you, I shall come in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.

so that I may come to you with joy by the will of God, and may be refreshed with you.