For I long to see you, that I might bestow among you some spiritual gift, to strengthen you withal.

I would that ye should know, brethren, how that I have oftentimes purposed to come unto you, but have been let hitherto, to have some fruit among you, as I have among other of the gentiles.

What, then, though some of them did not believe? Shall their unbelief make the promise of God without effect?

And say not rather - as men evil-speak of us, and as some affirm that we say - "Let us do evil, that good may come thereof." Whose damnation is just.

that I might provoke them which are my flesh: and might save some of them.

Though some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, art graft in among them, and made partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree;