Romans 15:22–33

²²Wherefore, also, I was hindered many times from coming unto you, ²³and now, no longer having place in these parts, and having a longing to come unto you for many years, ²⁴when I may go on to Spain I will come unto you, for I hope in going through, to see you, and by you to be set forward thither, if of you first, in part, I shall be filled. ²⁵And, now, I go on to Jerusalem, ministering to the saints; ²⁶for it pleased Macedonia and Achaia well to make a certain contribution for the poor of the saints who are in Jerusalem; ²⁷for it pleased well, and their debtors they are, for if in their spiritual things the nations did participate, they ought also, in the fleshly things, to minister to them. ²⁸This, then, having finished, and having sealed to them this fruit, I will return through you, to Spain; ²⁹and I have known that coming unto you—in the fulness of the blessing of the good news of Christ I shall come.

³⁰And I call upon you, brethren, through our Lord Jesus Christ, and through the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in the prayers for me unto God, ³¹that I may be delivered from those not believing in Judea, and that my ministration, that is for Jerusalem, may become acceptable to the saints; ³²that in joy I may come unto you, through the will of God, and may be refreshed with you, ³³and the God of the peace be with you all. Amen.

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