Now I do not 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 he who has died has been freed from sin.

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.

When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by way of you to Spain.