For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;

And I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you (and was hindered hitherto), that I might have some fruit in you also, even as in the rest of the Gentiles.

For what if some were without faith? shall their want of faith make of none effect the faithfulness of God?

and why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do evil, that good may come? whose condemnation is just.

For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: for peradventure for the good man some one would even dare to die.

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

But if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive, wast grafted in among them, and didst become partaker with them of the root of the fatness of the olive tree;

But I write the more boldly unto you in some measure, as putting you again in remembrance, because of the grace that was given me of God,

whensoever I go unto Spain (for I hope to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first in some measure I shall have been satisfied with your company)--