Romans:15

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* We then who are strong ought to hear the infirmities of the weak , and not to please ourselves . * Let each one of us please his neighbor , to promote what is good , for edification . * For Christ did not seek his own pleasure , but , as it is written , "The reproaches of those who reproached thee fell on me ." * For whatever things were written aforetime , were written for our instruction ; that we through the patience and the consolation of the Scriptures might have hope . * And may the God of patience and consolation grant that ye may be of the same mind one with another , according to Christ Jesus ; * that with one accord ye may with one mouth glorify God , the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ . * Wherefore receive ye one another , as Christ received you to the glory of God . * For I say that Christ became a minister to the circumcised for the sake of God ’s truth , in order to make sure the promises given to the fathers ; * and that the gentiles glorified God for his mercy , as it is written , "For this cause I will give praise to thee among the gentiles , and sing to thy name ." * And again he saith : "Rejoice , ye gentiles , with his people ." * And again : "Praise the Lord , all ye gentiles , and let every people praise him ." * And again Isaiah saith : "There shall be the shoot from Jesse , and he that riseth up to rule the gentiles ; in him shall the gentiles hope ." * And may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing , that ye may abound in hope , through the power of the Holy Spirit . * But I myself am persuaded of you , my brethren , that ye are even of yourselves full of goodness , filled with all knowledge , able also to admonish one another . * But I have written to you , brethren , in a manner somewhat bold on some subjects , as putting you in mind , on account of the grace given me by God * that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus to the gentiles , performing the office of a priest in respect to the gospel of God , that the oblation of the gentiles may be acceptable , being sanctified by the Holy Spirit . * I have then ground for glorying in Christ Jesus in regard to the things pertaining m God . * For I will not be bold to say anything hut of what Christ hath actually wrought by me to bring the gentiles to obedience by word and deed , * by the power of signs and wonders , by the power of the Spirit ; so that from Jerusalem , and in the country around even to Illyricum , I have fully made known the gospel of Christ ; * but always earnestly desirous to preach it in this manner ,––not where Christ had been named , that I might not build on another ’s foundation , * but , as it is written : "They , to whom no tidings concerning him came , shall see ; and they that have not heard shall understand ." * For which cause also , for the most part , I have been hindered from coming to you . * But now having no more opportunity in these regions , and having had for many years a great desire to come to you , * when I go to Spain , I will come to you ; for I hope to see you on my way , and to be helped forward thither by you , after I have in some degree satisfied myself with your company . * But now I am going to Jerusalem on a service of relief to the saints . * For Macedonia and Achaia have thought it good to make a contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem . * They have thought it good , and they owed it to them . For if the gentiles have shared in their spiritual things , they ought in return to minister to them in temporal things . * When therefore I have completed this business , and secured to them this fruit , I shall set out to pass through you to Spain . * And I know that when I come to you , I shall come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ . * But I beseech you , by our Lord Jesus Christ , and by the love produced by the Spirit , that ye strive together with me in prayers to God for me ; * that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judaea , and that my service for Jerusalem may prove acceptable to the saints ; * so that , through the will of God , I may come to you in joy , and may with you be refreshed . * And may the God of peace be with you all . Amen .

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