Rom 15
1
Now we that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please
ourselves.
2
Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to edifying.
3
For Christ also pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them
that reproached you fell upon me.
4
For whatever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that through
patience and through comfort of the scriptures we might have hope.
5
Now the God of patience and of comfort grant you to be of the same mind one with another
according to Christ Jesus:
6
that with one accord you may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ.
7
Wherefore receive you one another, even as Christ also received you, to the glory
of God.
8
For I say that Christ has been made a minister of the circumcision for the truth of
God, that he might confirm the promises [given] to the fathers,
9
and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, Therefore
will I give praise to you among the Gentiles, And sing to your name.
10
And again he says, Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people.
11
And again, Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles; And let all the peoples praise him.
12
And again, Isaiah says, There shall be the root of Jesse, And he who arises to rule
over the Gentiles; On him shall the Gentiles hope.
13
Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound
in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
14
And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that you yourselves are full of
goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
15
But I write the more boldly to you in some measure, as putting you again in remembrance,
because of the grace that was given me of God,
16
that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel
of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, being sanctified
by the Holy Spirit.
17
I have therefore my glorifying in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.
18
For I will not dare to speak of any things save those which Christ wrought through
me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,
19
in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem,
and round about even to Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ;
20
yea, making it my aim so to preach the gospel, not where Christ was [already] named,
that I might not build upon another man`s foundation;
21
but, as it is written, They shall see, to whom no tidings of him came, And they who
have not heard shall understand.
22
Wherefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you:
23
but now, having no more any place in these regions, and having these many years a
longing to come to you,
24
whenever I go to Spain (for I hope to see you in my journey, and to be brought on
my way thitherward by you, if first in some measure I shall have been satisfied with
your company)--
25
but now, I [say], I go to Jerusalem, ministering to the saints.
26
For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution
for the poor among the saints that are at Jerusalem.
27
Yea, it has been their good pleasure; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles
have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it [to them] also to
minister to them in carnal things.
28
When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will
go on by you to Spain.
29
And I know that, when I come to you, I shall come in the fullness of the blessing
of Christ.
30
Now I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit,
that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;
31
that I may be delivered from them that are disobedient in Judea, and [that] my ministration
which [I have] for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints;
32
that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and together with you find
rest.
33
Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.