I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles.

in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them.

Whoever thus serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men.

and thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on someone else's foundation,