Rom Romans, chapter Epistle to the Romans, chapter 15
And we ought—we who are strong—to bear the weaknesses of the powerless, and not to please ourselves; for let each one of us please the neighbor for good, for edification, for even the Christ did not please Himself, but according as it has been written: “The reproaches of those reproaching You fell on Me”; for as many things as were written before, for our instruction were written before, that through the endurance, and the exhortation of the Writings, we might have the hope. And may the God of the endurance, and of the exhortation, give to yöu to have the same mind toward one another, according to Christ Jesus, that with one accord—with one mouth—yöu may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; for this reason receive one another, according as also the Christ received us, to the glory of God. And I say Jesus Christ to have become a servant of circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises to the fathers, and the nations for kindness to glorify God, according as it has been written: “Because of this I will confess to You among nations, and to Your Name I will sing praise”; and again it says, “Rejoice yöu nations, with His people”; and again, “Praise the LORD, all yöu nations; and laud Him, all yöu peoples”; and again, Isaiah says, “There will be the root of Jesse, and He who is rising to rule nations—on Him will nations hope”; and the God of the hope will fill yöu with all joy and peace in the believing, for yöur abounding in the hope in power of the Holy Spirit. And I am persuaded, my brothers—I myself also—concerning yöu, that yöu yourselves also are full of goodness, having been filled with all knowledge, also able to admonish one another; and the more boldly I wrote to yöu, brothers, in part, as putting yöu in mind, because of the grace that is given to me by God, for my being a servant of Jesus Christ to the nations, acting as priest in the good news of God, that the offering up of the nations may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. I have, then, a boasting in Christ Jesus, in the things pertaining to God, for I will not dare to speak anything of the things that Christ did not work through me, to obedience of nations, by word and deed, in power of signs and wonders, in power of the Spirit of God; so that I, from Jerusalem, and in a circle as far as Illyricum, have fully preached the good news of the Christ; and so counting it honor to proclaim good news, not where Christ was named—that on another’s foundation I might not build— but according as it has been written: “To whom it was not told concerning Him, they will see; and they who have not heard, will understand.” For this reason, also, I was hindered many times from coming to yöu, and now, no longer having place in these parts, and having a longing to come to yöu for many years, when I may go on to Spain I will come to yöu, for I hope in going through, to see yöu, and by yöu to be set forward there, if of yöu first, in part, I will be filled. And now, I go on to Jerusalem, ministering to the holy ones; for it pleased Macedonia and Achaia well to make a certain contribution for the poor of the holy ones who [are] in Jerusalem; for it pleased well, and their debtors they are, for if the nations participated in their spiritual things, they ought also, in the fleshly things, to minister to them. This, then, having finished, and having sealed to them this fruit, I will return through yöu, to Spain; and I have known that coming to yöu—in the fullness of the blessing of the good news of Christ I will come. And I call on yöu, brothers, through our Lord Jesus Christ, and through the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in the prayers for me to God, that I may be delivered from those not believing in Judea, and that my ministry, that [is] for Jerusalem, may become acceptable to the holy ones; that in joy I may come to yöu, through the will of God, and may be refreshed with yöu, and the God of peace [be] with yöu all. Amen.