For I desire to see you, in order that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, in order to strengthen you,

Now I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that often I intended to come to you, and was prevented until now, in order that I might have some fruit among you also, just as also among the rest of the Gentiles.

{What is the result} if some refused to believe? Their unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of God, [will it]?

And [why] not (as we are slandered, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil, in order that good may come [of it]? Their condemnation is just!

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

Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, [although you] were a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them and became a sharer of the root of the olive tree's richness,

But I have written to you more boldly on [some] points, so as to remind you [again] because of the grace that has been given to me by God,

For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make some contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.