Romans 15:1-18

¹Now we who are strong ought to bear with the limitations of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

²Let each of us please the neighbor with a view to what is good for edifying.

³Because even the Christ did not please Himself; rather, as it is written: “The revilings of those reviling you fell on me.”

⁴Whatever things were written before were so written for our instruction, so that through the fortitude and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

⁵Now may the God of that fortitude and that encouragement grant you to be of the same mind among yourselves according to Christ Jesus,

⁶so that you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ with one heart and voice.

⁷Therefore accept one another, just as the Christ also accepted us, to the glory of God.

⁸Now I say that Christ Jesus has become a minister to the circumcised on behalf of God's truth, in order to confirm the promises to the fathers;

⁹and that the Gentiles might glorify God for His mercy, as it is written: “For this reason I will give praise to you among the Gentiles, O Lord, and will sing psalms to your name.”

¹⁰And again He says: “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people!”

¹¹And again: “Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and laud Him, all you peoples!”

¹²And again, Isaiah says: “The Root of Jesse will appear, even He who rises up to rule over the nations; the Gentiles will place their hope on Him.”

¹³Now may the God of the hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in that hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

¹⁴Now I myself am really confident about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

¹⁵Nevertheless I have written to you quite boldly on some points, brothers, as a reminder to you, because of the grace given to me by God,

¹⁶that I should be a minister of Jesus Christ to the nations, serving the Gospel of God as a priest so that the Gentiles might become an acceptable offering, sanctified by Holy Spirit.

¹⁷So in Christ Jesus I do have a boast in things pertaining to God;

¹⁸because I do not presume to speak of anything except those things that Christ has accomplished through me to make the Gentiles obedient—by word and deed,