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

But I would not that ye should be unacquainted, brethren, that oftentimes I have been purposing to come to you (and have been prevented until now), that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the other Gentile nations.

For what if some were unbelievers? shall their unbelief render the faithfulness of God ineffectual?

And why not admit, (as we are falsely reported of; and as some affirm we say,) That we should do evil things, that good may come? whose condemnation is just.

For scarcely for a righteous person will any one die: though for a good man perhaps some one might even dare to die.

if by any means I might provoke to jealousy my flesh, and save some of them.

But if some of the branches have been broken off, and thou though a wild olive hast been grafted in among them, and become a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree;