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

(for, when gentiles who have no law do by nature the things of the law, these, having no law, are a law to themselves;

For the name of God is blasphemed among the gentiles, because of you, as it has been written.

Or is He the God of Jews only? Is He not of gentiles also! Yes, of gentiles also;

whom He also called, not from Jews only, but also from gentiles?

What, then, shall we say? that gentiles who were not following after righteous obtained righteousness, but a righteousness which is of faith;

I Say, then, did they stumble, that they might fall? It could not be! But by their trespass salvation has come to the gentiles to provoke them to rivalry.

Now, if their trespass is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the gentiles, how much more their fulness?

But I am speaking to you gentiles. Inasmuch, indeed, then, as I am an apostle of the gentiles, I glorify my ministry;

For I do not wish you, brethren, to be ignorant of this mystery (lest ye be wise in your own conceits), that a hardening, in part, has befallen Israel, until the fulness of the gentiles come in;

and that the gentiles might glorify God for His mercy; as it has been written, "For this cause, I will confess to Thee among the gentiles; and to Thy name will I sing praise."

And again He saith, "Rejoice, ye gentiles with His people."

And again, "Praise the Lord, all ye gentiles, and let all the people extol Him."

And again Isaiah says, "There shall be the Root of Jesse, and He Who riseth up to rule over the gentiles, on Him will the gentiles hope."

that I should be a minister of Jesus Christ to the gentiles, ministering the Gospel of God, that the offering up of the gentiles may become acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

For I will venture to speak only of the things which God wrought through me for the obedience of the gentiles, by word and deed,

Indeed, they were well pleased, and their debtors they are; for, if the gentiles were partakers of their spiritual things, they ought also to minister to them in carnal things.

who, for my soul, laid down their own necks; to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the gentiles;