For I greatly desire to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to establish you;

But I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that I often proposed to come to you, (and have been hindered until the present time,) that I might have some fruit among you too, even as among the other nations also.

Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, every one who judgest, for in that in which thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.

For what? if some have not believed, shall their unbelief make the faith of God of none effect?

and not, according as we are injuriously charged, and according as some affirm that we say, Let us practise evil things, that good ones may come? whose judgment is just.

For scarcely for the just man will one die, for perhaps for the good man some one might also dare to die;

for the creature has been made subject to vanity, not of its will, but by reason of him who has subjected the same, in hope

Or has not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make one vessel to honour, and another to dishonour?

For there is no difference of Jew and Greek; for the same Lord of all is rich towards all that call upon him.

if by any means I shall provoke to jealousy them which are my flesh, and shall save some from among them.

Now if some of the branches have been broken out, and thou, being a wild olive tree, hast been grafted in amongst them, and hast become a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree,

For, as in one body we have many members, but all the members have not the same office;

Have the same respect one for another, not minding high things, but going along with the lowly: be not wise in your own eyes: