For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;
And I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you (and was hindered hitherto), that I might have some fruit in you also, even as in the rest of the Gentiles.
For I verily, being absent in body but present in spirit, have already as though I were present judged him that hath so wrought this thing,
For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.