Romans 15:12-25

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,

¹⁹by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of God's Spirit, so that I have fully proclaimed the Gospel of the Christ from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum.

²⁰It has always been my aim to evangelize where Christ has not been named, so that I would not be building on someone else's foundation;

²¹rather, as it is written: “Those to whom He was not announced will see, and those who have not heard will understand.”

²²That is why I have been hindered these many times from coming to you.

²³But now, no longer having a place in these parts, and having a longing these many years to come to you,

²⁴whenever I travel to Spain I will come to you. Because I hope to see you while passing through, and to be sent on my way there by you, if I may first enjoy your company for a while.

²⁵Now, however, I am traveling to Jerusalem, serving the saints.