Romans 15:14–21

Paul the Minister to the Gentiles

¹⁴I myself am convinced, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness,^p filled with knowledge^q and competent to instruct one another. ¹⁵Yet I have written you quite boldly on some points to remind you of them again, because of the grace God gave me^{r 16}to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles.^s He gave me the priestly duty of proclaiming the gospel of God,^t so that the Gentiles might become an offering^u acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

¹⁷Therefore I glory in Christ Jesus^v in my service to God.^{w 18}I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles^x to obey God^y by what I have said and done—¹⁹by the power of signs and wonders,^z through the power of the Spirit of God.^a So from Jerusalem^b all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.^{c 20}It has always been my ambition to preach the gospel^d where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation.^{e 21}Rather, as it is written:

“Those who were not told about him will see,

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