Romans 15:3-18

³We should please our fellow believers, since Christ has set us an example. He did not do things to please himself. On the contrary, he tried to please God even when others insulted him. That was as it is written {as ◄ someone/the Psalmist► wrote} in Scripture that the Messiah said to God: “When people insulted you (sg), it was as though they were also insulting me.”

⁴And you need to remember that what was written previously {what God's servants previously wrote} in the Scriptures, was written { they wrote} to teach us in order that we would be patient and be encouraged by reading/believing what they wrote. If we do that, we can confidently expect God to do for us all he has promised.

⁵God is the one who enables us to be patient and encourages us. ◄ Ask/Pray to► him that he would enable you all to live harmoniously with each other, doing as Christ Jesus did.

⁶Then, as you are united in what you think and say MTY, you will praise God, who is the heavenly father MET of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁷So I say to all of you believers at Rome, accept each other. If you do that, people will praise God as they see you behaving like Christ. Accept each other just like Christ accepted you!

⁸I want you to remember that Christ helped us Jews MTY by what he did, in order to show that God ◄is faithful/does what he says he will do►. That is, his coming as our Messiah fulfilled what God promised to our Jewish ancestors.

⁹And by acting mercifully to them, he also caused non-Jews to praise him. What he has done for non-Jews fulfills what is written in the Scriptures that David said to God: “So I will praise you (sg) when I am among the non-Jews, and I will sing to you MTY.”

¹⁰David also wrote, “ You non-Jews, rejoice with us who are God's people.”

¹¹And Moses wrote in the Scriptures, “Praise the Lord, all you non-Jews, and may everyone praise him DOU.”

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,