asking if by any means I may now at some time have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come to you.

For I greatly desire to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, that you may be strengthened,

But I wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, that I often purposed to come to you, and was hindered hitherto, that I might have some fruit also among you, as among the other gentiles.

who knowing the ordinance of God, that those who do such things deserve death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in those who do them.

Wherefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are that judge, for in that in which you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge do the same things.

But do you think this, O man, who judge those doing such things and do the same, that you shall escape the judgment of God?

For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief destroy the faith of God?

And as we are falsely accused and as some declare that we say, [do we say] Let us do evil that good may come? Whose judgment is just.

since there is one God who will justify the circumcision by faith and the uncircumcision through the [same] faith.

for scarcely for a righteous man will one die, but for a good man some one perhaps would even dare to die;

that the same creation will be delivered from the servitude of destruction and [brought] into the glorious liberty of the sons of God.

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, For this same cause I raised you up, to show my power in you, and that my name may be declared in all the earth.

or has not the potter a right, in respect to the clay, to make of the same mass one vessel to honor and another to dishonor?

For there is no difference between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord of all is rich to all that call upon him.

if perhaps I may excite my flesh [race] to emulation and save some of them.

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became a partaker of the root and excellence of the olive,

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

Desire the same thing one for another; desire not the high, but be satisfied with the humble. Be not wise in your own conceit.

For on this account also you pay taxes; for [magistrates] are servants of God attending constantly to this same thing.

Love does no evil to a neighbor; love therefore is the sum of the law.

And the God of patience and consolation grant you to have the same mind one to another, according to Christ Jesus,

For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make some contribution for the poor of the saints at Jerusalem.