For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to you for the establishing of you.

But I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that oftentimes I purposed to come to you, and was kept back until the present; that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other nations.

For what? If some did not believe, will not their unbelief nullify the faith of God?

And not rather, (as we are wrongly accused, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do bad things that good may come? Their condemnation is just.

if by any means I may provoke those who are my flesh to jealousy, 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 became a sharer of the root and the fatness of the olive tree with them,