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

Now I don't desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?

Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil, that good may come?" Those who say so are justly condemned.

if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may 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 partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree;