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.

What then? What Israel was searching for, this it did not obtain. But the elect obtained [it], and the rest were hardened,

so that, coming to you with joy by the will of God, I may rest with you.