Romans 15:9-21

⁹and that the gentiles glorified God for his mercy, as it is written, “For this cause I will give praise to thee among the gentiles, and sing to thy name.”

¹⁰And again he saith: “Rejoice, ye gentiles, with his people.”

¹¹And again: “Praise the Lord, all ye gentiles, and let every people praise him.”

¹²And again Isaiah saith: “There shall be the shoot from Jesse, and he that riseth up to rule the gentiles; in him shall the gentiles hope.”

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

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

¹⁵But I have written to you, brethren, in a manner somewhat bold on some subjects, as putting you in mind, on account of the grace given me by God

¹⁶that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus to the gentiles, performing the office of a priest in respect to the gospel of God, that the oblation of the gentiles may be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

¹⁷I have then ground for glorying in Christ Jesus in regard to the things pertaining m God.

¹⁸For I will not be bold to say anything hut of what Christ hath actually wrought by me to bring the gentiles to obedience by word and deed,

¹⁹by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and in the country around even to Illyricum, I have fully made known the gospel of Christ;

²⁰but always earnestly desirous to preach it in this manner,—not where Christ had been named, that I might not build on another's foundation,

²¹but, as it is written: “They, to whom no tidings concerning him came, shall see; and they that have not heard shall understand.”