Romans 15:14–33

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.

²²Wherefore also I have been often hindered from coming to you. ²³But now, having no longer place in these regions, and having great desire to come to you these many years, ²⁴whenever I should go to Spain; (for I hope to see you as I go through, and by you to be set forward thither, if first I shall have been in part filled with your company;) ²⁵but now I go to Jerusalem, ministering to the saints; ²⁶for Macedonia and Achaia have been well pleased to make a certain contribution for the poor of the saints who are in Jerusalem. ²⁷They have been well pleased indeed, and they are their debtors; for if the nations have participated in their spiritual things, they ought also in fleshly to minister to them. ²⁸Having finished this therefore, and having sealed to them this fruit, I will set off by you into Spain. ²⁹But I know that, coming to you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of Christ.

³⁰But I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in prayers for me to God; ³¹that I may be saved from those that do not believe in Judaea; and that my ministry which I have for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints; ³²in order that I may come to you in joy by God’s will, and that I may be refreshed with you. ³³And the God of peace be with you all. Amen.