Rom 15
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We then who are strong are obligated to bear with the infirmities of the weak, and
not to please ourselves.
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Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, leading to edification.
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For even Christ did not please Himself; but as it is written, "The reproaches of those
reproaching You fell on Me."
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For as many things as were previously written, were written for our own instruction,
that through the patience and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we may have
hope.
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Now may the God of patience and of encouragement grant you to be like-minded among
one another, according to Christ Jesus,
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so that you may with one accord and one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ.
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Therefore receive one another, just as also Christ received you, to [the] glory of
God.
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Now I say that Christ Jesus has become a servant to the circumcision for the truth
of God, in order to confirm the promises to the fathers,
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and that the Gentiles might glorify God on behalf of His mercy, as it is written:
"For this reason I will confess to You among the Gentiles, and I will sing praise
to Your name."
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And again he says: "Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people!"
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And again: "Praise the LORD, all you Gentiles! Praise Him, all you peoples!"
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And again, Isaiah says: "There shall be the root of Jesse; and He that shall rise
to rule over the Gentiles, in Him the Gentiles shall hope."
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Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may
abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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Now I myself am confident concerning you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full
of goodness, having been filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.
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And I write more boldly to you brothers, in part, as reminding you, because of the
grace having been given to me by God,
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that I should be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel
of God as a priest, so that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, sanctified
by the Holy Spirit.
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Therefore I have something to boast of in Christ Jesus in the things pertaining to
God.
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For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ did not work out
through me, in word and deed, for the obedience of [the] Gentiles-
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in mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem
and as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.
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And so eagerly striving to evangelize not where Christ was named, lest I should build
upon the foundation of another,
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but as it is written: "To whom He was not announced, they shall see; and those who
have not heard shall understand."
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For this reason I also have been hindered many times from coming to you.
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But now no longer having a place in these regions, and having a longing to come to
you for many years,
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whenever I travel to Spain, I shall come to you. For I hope [while] traveling through
to see you, and to be sent forward there by you, if I may be filled in part [from]
you first.
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But now I am traveling to Jerusalem ministering to the saints.
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For Macedonia and Achaia thought it good to make some contribution for the poor among
the saints in Jerusalem.
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For they thought it good, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles shared in
spiritual things, they are obligated also to minister to them in material things.
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Therefore, having finished and having sealed to them this fruit, I shall go by way
of you to Spain.
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But I know that coming to you, I shall come in the fullness of the blessing of the
gospel of Christ.
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Now I beg you, brothers, through the Lord Jesus Christ, and through the love of the
Spirit, to strive together with me in prayers to God on my behalf,
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that I may be delivered from those in Judea who do not believe, and that my service
for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,
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so that in joy I may come to you through the will of God, and may be refreshed together
with you.
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Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.