For I greatly desire to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to establish you;

But I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that I often proposed to come to you, (and have been hindered until the present time,) that I might have some fruit among you too, even as among the other nations also.

For what? if some have not believed, shall their unbelief make the faith of God of none effect?

and not, according as we are injuriously charged, and according as some affirm that we say, Let us practise evil things, that good ones may come? whose judgment is just.

For scarcely for the just man will one die, for perhaps for the good man some one might also dare to die;

if by any means I shall provoke to jealousy them which are my flesh, and shall save some from among them.

Now if some of the branches have been broken out, and thou, being a wild olive tree, hast been grafted in amongst them, and hast become a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree,