For I long to see you, so that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, in order to establish you,

But I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that I often intended to come to you (and was prevented until now), so that I might have some fruit also among you, even as among the other Gentiles.

For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the assurance of God ineffective?

and not (as we are slandered, and as some affirm us to say) that we may do evil so that good things may come (whose condemnation is just)?

For scarcely for a righteous man will some man die, indeed perhaps for the good man some man would even dare to die.

if somehow I may provoke my flesh to jealousy and may save some of them.

And if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and became a joint partaker of the root of the fatness of the olive tree,