For I greatly desire to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, in order that you may be established;

But, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant that I often purposed to come to you, though I have been hindered to the present time, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.

What, indeed, if some have been unfaithful? Will their unfaithfulness overthrow the faithfulness of God?

Then, why not say, (as we are slanderously reported as saying, and, as some affirm, that we do say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? Of such persons the condemnation is just.

For hardly, in deed, will one die for a just man; yet, perhaps, for the good man some one would even dare to die.

if, by any means, I may excite to jealousy those who are my flesh, and save some of them.

And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, have been grafted in among them, and partake with them of the root and fatness of the olive,