Romans 15:8-33 ▼

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.”

22 Therefore also I was being himdered many times from coming to you?.

23 But now, no longer having a place in these regions, and having a great desire for many years to come to you?,

24 as I may go to Spain, I hope, for going through, to see you? and to be sent forth there by you?, if first I should be filled up of you? in part.

25 But now I am going to Jerusalem, serving the saints.

26 For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make some contribution for the poor of the saints who are in Jerusalem.

27 For they were pleased, and they are debtors of them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual things, they ought also to minister to them in the fleshly things.

28 Therefore, having completed this, and having sealed this fruit to them, I will depart through you? to Spain.

29 And I know that coming to you? I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ.

30 Now I exhort you?, brothers, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in the prayers for me to God,

31 so that I may be delivered from the unbelieving ones in Judea, and that my service in Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,

32 so that having come to you? in joy, through the will of God I may be refreshed together with you?.

33 Now the God of peace be with all of you?. Amen.