For I greatly desire to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, that you may be strengthened,

For his invisible [attributes] are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being perceived by the things which are made, even his eternal power and deity, so that they have no defense,

to those who by patience in good works seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life;

but I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and making me captive to the law of sin which is in my members.

For we are saved by hope; but a hope that is seen is not a hope; for why does one hope for what he sees?

but if we hope for what we see not, we wait for it with patience.

Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have dug down thy altars, and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

What then? What Israel seeks, this it did not obtain, but the election obtained; and the rest were hardened,??8 as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear??o this day.

let their eyes be darkened that they may not see, and bow down their back always.

See then the goodness and severity of God; towards those that fell, severity, but towards you, the goodness of God, if you continue in goodness, for otherwise you also will be cut off.

but as it is written, They shall see to whom nothing was told concerning him, and they who have not heard shall understand.

should I go to Spain I will come to you; for I hope, going by, to see you, and to be sent forward by you there, when first I am in part filled with you.