And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come to you (and was hindered hitherto), that I might have some fruit in you also, even as in the rest of the gentiles.

What fruit, therefore, had ye then in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

But now, having been made free from sin, and having been made slaves to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end eternal life;

Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that ye might be joined to another??o Him Who was raised from the dead??hat we might bear fruit to God.

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

and, not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruit of the Spirit, even we ourselves are groaning within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.

And, if the first-fruit is holy, so also is the lump; and, if the root is holy, so also are the branches.

After having completed this, and having sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by you into Spain;

and salute the assembly that is in her house. Salute Epaenetus my beloved, who is the first-fruit of Asia unto Christ.