Romans 15:10-17

¹⁰And also: “Foreigners, celebrate with his people!”

¹¹And again: “All you foreigners, praise the Lord, let all peoples praise him.”

¹²And again, Isaiah says, “Jesse's descendant will come to rule the nations, and foreigners will put their hope in him.”

¹³May the God of hope completely fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you will overflow with hope through the power of the Holy Spirit!

¹⁴I'm convinced that you, my brothers and sisters, are full of goodness, and that you are filled with every kind of knowledge, so you are well able to teach one another.

¹⁵I've been blunt in the way I have written to you about some of these things, but this is just to remind you. For God gave me grace

¹⁶to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the foreigners, like a priest sharing God's good news, so that they could become an acceptable offering, made holy by the Holy Spirit.

¹⁷So even though I have something to boast about because of my service for God,