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21 I have been following the plan spoken of in the Scriptures where Isaiah says that those who have never heard the name of Christ before will see and understand. 22 In fact, that is the very reason I have been so long in coming to visit you.

23 But now at last I am through with my work here, and I am ready to come after all these long years of waiting.

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21 Rather, as it is written:

“Those who were not told about him will see,
    and those who have not heard will understand.”[a](A)

22 This is why I have often been hindered from coming to you.(B)

Paul’s Plan to Visit Rome

23 But now that there is no more place for me to work in these regions, and since I have been longing for many years to visit you,(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 15:21 Isaiah 52:15 (see Septuagint)