and I know that when I come to you I will come in the fullness of Christ’s blessing.

This is the reason I was often hindered from coming to you.

so that by God’s will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company.

And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive

For this is what the promise declared: “About a year from now I will return and Sarah will have a son.”

and I always ask in my prayers, if perhaps now at last I may succeed in visiting you according to the will of God.

But now there is nothing more to keep me in these regions, and I have for many years desired to come to you

I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that I often intended to come to you (and was prevented until now), so that I may have some fruit even among you, just as I already have among the rest of the Gentiles.

And why not say, “Let us do evil so that good may come of it”? – as some who slander us allege that we say. (Their condemnation is deserved!)