Romans 15:11-18

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

¹²And again, Isaiah says: “There shall be the root of Jesse; and He that shall rise to rule over the Gentiles, in Him the Gentiles shall hope.”

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

¹⁴Now I myself am confident concerning you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, having been filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

¹⁵And I write more boldly to you brothers, in part, as reminding you, because of the grace given to me by God,

¹⁶that I should be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God as a priest, so that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

¹⁷Therefore I have something to boast of in Christ Jesus in the things pertaining to God.

¹⁸For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ did not work out through me, in word and deed, for the obedience of the Gentiles—