asking that somehow by God's will I may now at last find the way to come to you.

Much in every way! To begin with, they are entrusted with the oracles of God.

But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.)

in their ways are ruin and misery,

and the way of peace they do not know."

But now, by dying to what once held us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

Oh, the depth of the riches and of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out!

Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another anymore, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in our brother's way.

he who serves Christ in this way is acceptable to God and approved by men.

When therefore I have completed this, and have delivered to them this fruit, I shall go on by way of you to Spain.