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

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

For what if some believed not? Shall their unbelief disannul the faithfulness of God?

And why may we not (as we are slandered, and as some affirm us to say) do evil, that good may come? Whose damnation is just.

I magnify my office: If by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and save some of them.

And if some of the branches were broken off, and thou being a wild olive wert grafted in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the good olive,