For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you

I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that I often planned to come to you (but have been prevented from doing so until now) in order that I might have some harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles.

What if some did not have faith? Will their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God?

Why not say as we are being slanderously reported as saying and as some claim that we say "Let us do evil that good may come"? Their condemnation is just.

in the hope that I may somehow arouse to jealousy the kinsmen of my flesh and save some of them.

And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the rest to share the root of the olive tree,

But I have written very boldly to you on some points, so as to remind you again, because of the grace that was given me from God,