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

Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that often I purposed to come unto you, (but was prevented thus far,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.

For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect?

And not rather, (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: yet perhaps for a good man some would even dare to die.

If by any means I may provoke to envy them who are my flesh, and might save some of them.

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

Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto you in some way, as reminding you, because of the grace that is given to me of God,