13Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you,(but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.
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After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome.
Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.
Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-15)We may here observe, I. His thanksgivings for them (Rom. 1:8): First, I thank my God . It is good to begin every thing with blessing God, to make that the alpha and omega of every song, in every thing to give thanks .— My God . He speaks this with delight and triumph. In all our thanksgivings, it is good for us to eye God as our God; this makes every mercy sweet, when we can say of God, “He is min…
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