For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;

Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that I have often purposed to come to you (but have been hitherto hindered) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.

For what if some did not believe? will their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?

And not rather (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.

For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet perhaps for a good man some would even dare to die.

If by any means I may incite to emulation them who are my flesh, and may save some of them.

And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive-tree, art ingrafted among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive-tree;

Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly to you in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me from God.