Instead your hearts are filled with sadness because I have said these things to you.

“I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.

He will glorify me, because he will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you.

For I did not hold back from announcing to you the whole purpose of God.

Why do you people think it is unbelievable that God raises the dead?

Thus I am eager also to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome.

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

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.

Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?

That is why many of you are weak and sick, and quite a few are dead.

But you should be eager for the greater gifts. And now I will show you a way that is beyond comparison.

Listen, I will tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed –

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

But it is God who establishes us together with you in Christ and who anointed us,

As a result, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

Grace and peace to you from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,

I assure you that, before God, I am not lying about what I am writing to you!

But you know it was because of a physical illness that I first proclaimed the gospel to you,

My children – I am again undergoing birth pains until Christ is formed in you!