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.

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