and to ask that somehow by God's will I may some day at last succeed in reaching you.

For I long to see you, to convey to you some spiritual gift that will strengthen you;

I want you to understand, brothers, that I have often intended to come to see you (though thus far I have been prevented) in order to produce some results among you, as well as among the rest of the heathen.

What if some of them have shown a lack of faith? Can their lack of it nullify the faithfulness of God?

Why, a man will hardly give his life for an upright person, though perhaps for a really good man some may be brave enough to die.

in the hope of making my countrymen jealous, and thus saving some of them.

If some of the branches have been broken off, and you who were only a wild olive shoot have been grafted in, in place of them, and made to share the richness of the olive's root,

The man who will eat anything must not look down on the man who abstains from some things, and the man who abstains from them must not criticize the one who does not, for God has accepted him.

But, just to refresh your memories, I have written you pretty boldly on some points, because of the favor God has shown me