Romans 15:9-26

⁹and the nations for kindness to glorify God, according as it hath been written, 'Because of this I will confess to Thee among nations, and to Thy name I will sing praise,'

¹⁰and again it saith, 'Rejoice ye nations, with His people;'

¹¹and again, 'Praise the Lord, all ye nations; and laud Him, all ye peoples;'

¹²and again, Isaiah saith, 'There shall be the root of Jesse, and he who is rising to rule nations — upon him shall nations hope;'

¹³and the God of the hope shall fill you with all joy and peace in the believing, for your abounding in the hope in power of the Holy Spirit.

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

¹⁵and the more boldly I did write to you, brethren, in part, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me by God,

¹⁶for my being a servant of Jesus Christ to the nations, acting as priest in the good news of God, that the offering up of the nations may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

¹⁷I have, then, a boasting in Christ Jesus, in the things pertaining to God,

¹⁸for I will not dare to speak anything of the things that Christ did not work through me, to obedience of nations, by word and deed,

¹⁹in power of signs and wonders, in power of the Spirit of God; so that I, from Jerusalem, and in a circle as far as Illyricum, have fully preached the good news of the Christ;

²⁰and so counting it honour to proclaim good news, not where Christ was named — that upon another's foundation I might not build —

²¹but according as it hath been written, 'To whom it was not told concerning him, they shall see; and they who have not heard, shall understand.'

²²Wherefore, also, I was hindered many times from coming unto you,

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

²⁴when I may go on to Spain I will come unto you, for I hope in going through, to see you, and by you to be set forward thither, if of you first, in part, I shall be filled.

²⁵And, now, I go on to Jerusalem, ministering to the saints;

²⁶for it pleased Macedonia and Achaia well to make a certain contribution for the poor of the saints who are in Jerusalem;