But we, the strong, ought to bear the infirmities of the weak and not to please ourselves.
Let each of us please his neighbour unto good for edification.
For even Christ pleased not himself, but even as it is written, “The reproaches of those that are reproaching thee fell on me.”
For as many things as were written before were written for our instruction, that through endurance and through comfort of the scriptures we might have hope.
Now the God of patience and of comfort give you to be likeminded one with another according to Christ Jesus,
that with one accord, with one mouth, ye may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Wherefore receive ye one another according as Christ also received you unto God’s glory.
For I say that Christ became a minister of [the] circumcision for God’s truth to confirm the promises of the fathers;
and that the Gentiles should glorify God for mercy, even as it is written, “On this account I will confess to thee among [the] Gentiles, and to thy name will I sing.”
And again he saith, “Rejoice, Gentiles, with his people;”
and, again, “Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles, and give him praise, all ye people.”
And again Esaias saith, “There shall be the root of Jesse, and he that standeth up to rule Gentiles: on him shall Gentiles hope.”
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope by the power of [the] Holy Spirit.
But I am persuaded, my brethren, even I myself about you, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
But I have written to you, brethren, more boldly in measure, as reminding you on account of the grace that was given to me by God,
in order to my being a minister of Jesus Christ unto the Gentiles, as a sacred rite ministering the gospel of God that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, sanctified by [the] Holy Spirit.
I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things relative to God.
For I will not dare to speak of anything of what Christ has wrought not by me for [the] obedience of [the] Gentiles by word and deed,
in [the] power of signs and wonders, in [the] power of [the Holy] Spirit; so that, from Jerusalem and in a circle as far as Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ,
yet so making it a point of honour to preach, not where Christ was named, that I might not build upon another’s foundation:
but even as it is written, “They to whom it was not told concerning him shall see, and they who have not heard shall understand.”
Wherefore also I have been these many times hindered from coming to you;
but now, having no longer place in these regions, and having a longing to come to you for many years past,
whenever I go into Spain [I will come to you, for] I hope while passing through to see you, and by you to be sent forward thither, if first I be in measure filled with you.
But now I go unto Jerusalem, ministering to the saints;
for Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a certain contribution for the poor of the saints that [are] at Jerusalem.
For they were pleased, and they are their debtors; for if in their spiritual things the Gentiles had a share, they ought also in things carnal to minister to them.
Having finished this therefore and sealed to them this fruit, I shall set off by you into Spain.
And I know that, on coming to you, I shall come in [the] fullness of [the] blessing of Christ.
Now I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, to strive with me in prayer for me to God,
that I may be delivered from the disobedient in Judea, and my ministry that [is] for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints;
that in joy coming to you by God’s will I may be refreshed with you.
And the God of peace [be] with you all. Amen.