Romans 15:14–21

Paul’s Ministry to the Gentiles

¹⁴Now I myself also am convinced about you, my brothers, that you yourselves also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to instruct one another. ¹⁵But I have written to you more boldly on some points, so as to remind you again because of the grace that has been given to me by God, ¹⁶with the result that I am a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving the gospel of God as a priest, in order that the offering of the Gentiles may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. ¹⁷Therefore I have a reason for boasting in Christ Jesus regarding the things concerning God. ¹⁸For I will not dare to speak about anything except that which Christ has accomplished through me, resulting in the obedience of the Gentiles by word and deed, ¹⁹by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit,^g so that from Jerusalem and traveling around as far as Illyricum I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ. ²⁰And so, having as my ambition to proclaim the gospel where Christ has not been named, in order that I will not build on the foundation belonging to someone else, ²¹but just as it is written,

“Those to whom it was not announced concerning him will see,

and those who have not heard will understand.”^h