Romans 15:1-21 ▼

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,

19 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God, so as for me, from Jerusalem and around as far as Illyricum, to have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ,

20 and thus striving earnestly to preach the gospel where Christ was not named, so that I might not build upon another’s foundation.

21 But as it has been written: “They will see, to whom it was not announced concerning Him; and those who have not heard will understand.”