For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;

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

who, knowing the ordinance of God, that they that practise such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also consent with them that practise them.

Wherefore thou art without excuse, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judges another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest dost practise the same things.

And reckonest thou this, O man, who judgest them that practise such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

For what if some were without faith? shall their want of faith make of none effect the faithfulness of God?

and why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do evil, that good may come? whose condemnation is just.

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

Or hath not the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek: for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich unto all that call upon him:

if by any means I may provoke to jealousy them that are my flesh, and may save some of them.

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;

For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office:

Be of the same mind one toward another. Set not your mind on high things, but condescend to things that are lowly. Be not wise in your own conceits.

For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. And wouldest thou have no fear of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise from the same:

Now the God of patience and of comfort grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus:

But I write the more boldly unto you in some measure, as putting you again in remembrance, because of the grace that was given me of God,

whensoever I go unto Spain (for I hope to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first in some measure I shall have been satisfied with your company)--