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

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

For what if some did not believe? shall their incredulity make the faithfulness of God of no effect?

and why may we not do evil that good may come?"---as we are injuriously charged, and as some affirm that we say; whose condemnation is just.

Now the law made some entrance, that the offence might appear to abound; but where sin abounded, grace hath superabounded; that as sin had reigned in death,

I extol my office, that if possible I may excite to emulation my brethren according to the flesh, and may save some of them:

But if some of the branches were broken off, and thou a wild-olive wert grafted in among them, and art made a partaker together with them of the root and fatness of the olive; boast not against the branches:

One preferreth some days to others; another esteemeth every day alike. Let every one be fully satisfied in his own mind.

He that regardeth a day regardeth it to the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, in deference to the Lord he doth not regard it. So he, that eateth all sorts of food, eateth to the Lord; for he giveth God thanks for it; and he that eateth not of some kinds of food, in deference to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks for the rest.

for I hope to see you as I pass by, and to be brought forward by you on my way thither, after I have first had some enjoyment of you.