For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you,

I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that I often intended to come to you (and was prevented until now), so that I may have some fruit even among you, just as I already have among the rest of the Gentiles.

What then? If some did not believe, does their unbelief nullify the faithfulness of God?

And why not say, "Let us do evil so that good may come of it"? -- as some who slander us allege that we say. (Their condemnation is deserved!)

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

Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them and participated in the richness of the olive root,

But I have written more boldly to you on some points so as to remind you, because of the grace given to me by God

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