Romans 15:12-20

¹²And Isaiah wrote in the Scriptures, “There will be a descendant MET of King David who will begin to rule the non-Jews. They will confidently expect him to fulfill what he has promised.”

¹³God is the one who causes you to confidently expect him to do what he has promised. I pray/ask that he will cause you to be completely joyful and peaceful as you trust in him. As you do that, the Holy Spirit will enable you to more and more confidently expect to receive what God has promised you.

¹⁴My fellow believers, I myself am completely sure that you yourselves have acted toward others in a completely good way. You have done that because you have known completely all that God wants you to know HYP, and because you are able to teach each other.

¹⁵However, I have written to you quite frankly in this letter about some things in order to remind you about those things. I have written this letter because I have been appointed by God {God has appointed me}, which I did not deserve,

¹⁶in order that I would work for Jesus Christ among non-Jews. God has appointed me to act like a priest as I proclaim his good message in order that he will accept the non-Jews who believe in Christ. They will be like an offering MET to God as a result of their being dedicated to him by the Holy Spirit {the Holy Spirit dedicating them to God}.

¹⁷It follows that, because of my relationship with (OR, because I belong to) Christ Jesus, I am happy about my work for God.

¹⁸I will speak boldly only LIT about the work that Christ has enabled me to do. I do that work in order that non-Jews might pay attention to the message about Christ as a result of what I have said and done,

¹⁹specifically, by my performing many powerful miracles DOU. I have done those things as a result of God's Spirit powerfully enabling me. As a result of doing those things, while traveling all the way around from Jerusalem to Illyricum province, I have completed my work of proclaiming the message about Christ in those places.

²⁰As I proclaim that message, I am always eagerly trying to proclaim it in places where people have not already heard about Christ. I do that in order that as I work for God I might not be continuing the work for him that someone else already started MET. I do not want to be like a man who builds a house on someone else's foundation.