Romans 15:9-21

⁹and that the nations should glorify God for mercy; according as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the nations, and will sing to thy name.

¹⁰And again he says, Rejoice, nations, with his people.

¹¹And again, Praise the Lord, all ye nations, and let all the peoples laud him.

¹²And again, Esaias says, There shall be the root of Jesse, and one that arises, to rule over the nations: in him shall the nations hope.

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

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

¹⁵But I have written to you the more boldly, brethren, in part, as putting you in mind, because of the grace given to me by God,

¹⁶for me to be minister of Christ Jesus to the nations, carrying on as a sacrificial service the message of glad tidings of God, in order that the offering up of the nations might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

¹⁷I have therefore whereof to boast in Christ Jesus in the things which pertain to God.

¹⁸For I will not dare to speak anything of the things which Christ has not wrought by me, for the obedience of the nations, by word and deed,

¹⁹in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God; so that I, from Jerusalem, and in a circuit round to Illyricum, have fully preached the glad tidings of the Christ;

²⁰and so aiming to announce the glad tidings, not where Christ has been named, that I might not build upon another's foundation;

²¹but according as it is written, To whom there was nothing told concerning him, they shall see; and they that have not heard shall understand.