making request, if by any means now at length I may be prospered by the will of God to come unto you.

who will render to every man according to his works:

and knowest his will, and approvest the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

Blessed is the man to whom, the Lord will not reckon sin.

For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: for peradventure for the good man some one would even dare to die.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me, but to do that which is good is not.

For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope

and he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

For this is a word of promise, According to this season will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.

For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.

So then he hath mercy on whom he will, and whom he will be hardeneth.

Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he still find fault? For who withstandeth his will?

As he saith also in Hosea, I will call that my people, which was not my people; And her beloved, that was not beloved.

for the Lord will execute his word upon the earth, finishing it and cutting it short.

But I say, Did Israel not know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation, With a nation void of understanding will I anger you.

But if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive, wast grafted in among them, and didst become partaker with them of the root of the fatness of the olive tree;

Thou wilt say then, Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.

for if God spared not the natural branches, neither will he spare thee.

For if thou wast cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and wast grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree; how much more shall these, which are the natural branches , be grafted into their own olive tree?

And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, and ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Avenge not yourselves, beloved, but give place unto the wrath of God : for it is written, Vengeance belongeth unto me; I will recompense, saith the Lord.

and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, Therefore will I give praise unto thee among the Gentiles, And sing unto thy name.

For I will not dare to speak of any things save those which Christ wrought through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

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

that I may come unto you in joy through the will of God, and together with you find rest.