Romans 15:3-19

³For Christ also pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell upon me.

⁴For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that through patience and through comfort of the scriptures we might have hope.

⁵Now the God of patience and of comfort grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus:

⁶that with one accord ye may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁷Wherefore receive ye one another, even as Christ also received you, to the glory of God.

⁸For I say that Christ hath been made a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given unto the fathers,

⁹and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, Therefore will I give praise unto thee among the Gentiles, And sing unto thy name.

¹⁰And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.

¹¹And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; And let all the peoples praise him.

¹²And again, Isaiah saith, There shall be the root of Jesse, And he that ariseth to rule over the Gentiles; On him shall the Gentiles hope.

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

¹⁴And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

¹⁵But I write the more boldly unto you in some measure, as putting you again in remembrance, because of the grace that was given me of God,

¹⁶that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus unto the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

¹⁷I have therefore my glorying in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.

¹⁸For I will not dare to speak of any things save those which Christ wrought through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

¹⁹in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and round about even unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ;