Romans 15:16–30

¹⁶That I should be the minister of Christ Jesus among the Gentiles: sanctifying the gospel of God, that the oblation of the Gentiles may be made acceptable and sanctified in the Holy Ghost.

¹⁷I have therefore glory in Christ Jesus towards God.

¹⁸For I dare not to speak of any of those things which Christ worketh not by me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

¹⁹By the virtue of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Ghost, so that from Jerusalem round about, as far as unto Illyricum, I have replenished the gospel of Christ.

²⁰And I have so preached this gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man a foundation.

²¹But as it is written: They to whom he was not spoken of shall see: and they that have not heard shall understand.

²²For which cause also, I was hindered very much from coming to you and have been kept away till now.

²³But now, having no more place in these countries and having a great desire these many years past to come unto you,

²⁴When I shall begin to take my journey into Spain, I hope that, as I pass, I shall see you and be brought on my way thither by you: if first, in part, I shall have enjoyed you.

²⁵But now I shall go to Jerusalem, to minister unto the saints.

²⁶For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a contribution for the poor of the saints that are in Jerusalem.

²⁷For it hath pleased them: and they are their debtors. For, if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they ought also in carnal things to minister to them.

²⁸When therefore I shall have accomplished this and consigned to them this fruit, I will come by you into Spain.

²⁹And I know that when I come to you I shall come in the abundance of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.

³⁰I beseech you therefore, brethren, through our Lord Jesus Christ and by the charity of the Holy Ghost, that you help me in your prayers for me to God,