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I want you to know, brethren, 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.
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And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.
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For no human being will be justified in his sight by works of the law, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
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God’s Promise Realized through Faith
The promise to Abraham and his descendants, that they should inherit the world, did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.
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Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sins were not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.
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For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
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For, being ignorant of the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
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So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes by the preaching of Christ.
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The Salvation of the Gentiles
So I ask, have they stumbled so as to fall? By no means! But through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous.
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All Israel Will Be Saved
Lest you be wise in your own conceits, I want you to understand this mystery, brethren: a hardening has come upon part of Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles come in,
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and so all Israel will be saved; as it is written, “The Deliverer will come from Zion, he will banish ungodliness from Jacob”;
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and further Isaiah says, “The root of Jesse shall come, he who rises to rule the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles hope.”
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But now, since I no longer have any room for work in these regions, and since I have longed for many years to come to you,
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they were pleased to do it, and indeed they are in debt to them, for if the Gentiles have come to share in their spiritual blessings, they ought also to be of service to them in material blessings.
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and I know that when I come to you I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of Christ.
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so that by God’s will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company.
