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1 Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the powerless and not to please ourselves. 2 Let each of us please the neighbor unto good, for building up. 3 For even Christ did not please Himself, but as it has been written: “The reproaches of those reproaching You fell on Me.” 4 For as much as was written before was all written for our instruction, so that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have the hope. 5 Now may the God of endurance and encouragement grant you⁺ to be of the same mind with one another, according to Christ Jesus, 6 so that with one accord, with one mouth, you⁺ may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. 7 Therefore receive one another as Christ also received you⁺, to the glory of God. 8 For I say that Christ has become a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, in order to confirm the promises to the fathers, 9 and for the Gentiles to glorify God for mercy, as it has been written: “Because of this I will praise You among the Gentiles, and I will sing praises to Your name.” 10 And again it says: “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people.” 11 And again: “Praise the Lord, all the Gentiles, and extol Him, all the peoples.” 12 And again, Isaiah says: “There will be the root of Jesse, and the One arising to rule over the Gentiles; in Him the Gentiles will hope.” 13 And may the God of hope fill you⁺ with all joy and peace in believing, for you⁺ to abound in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit. 14 And I myself also am persuaded concerning you⁺, my brothers, that you yourselves are also full of goodness, being filled with all knowledge, and being able to admonish one another. 15 But I wrote to you⁺ more boldly in part, as reminding you⁺, because of the grace having been given to me by God 16 for me to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest in the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles might become acceptable, having been sanctified in the Holy Spirit. 17 Therefore I have ground for boasting in Christ Jesus in the things pertaining to God. 18 For I will not dare to speak of anything that Christ did not work through me for the obedience of the Gentiles by word and deed, Romans 15:1-18, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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