asking if by any means I may now at some time have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come to you.

For I greatly desire to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, that you may be strengthened,

But I wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, that I often purposed to come to you, and was hindered hitherto, that I might have some fruit also among you, as among the other gentiles.

For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief destroy the faith of God?

And as we are falsely accused and as some declare that we say, [do we say] Let us do evil that good may come? Whose judgment is just.

for scarcely for a righteous man will one die, but for a good man some one perhaps would even dare to die;

if perhaps I may excite my flesh [race] to emulation and save some of them.

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became a partaker of the root and excellence of the olive,

For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make some contribution for the poor of the saints at Jerusalem.