Romans:15

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* We who are strong in the faith ought to help the weak to carry their burdens . We should not just please ourselves . * Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good to build him up . * For even Christ did not please himself . However it is written , »The reproaches hurled at you have fallen on me .« (Psalm strkjv @69:9 ) * The things written in earlier times were written for our instruction , that we through endurance and the encouragement from the Scriptures might have hope . * Now may the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus . * To this end you may glorify God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ with one mind and one accord . * Receive one another , as Christ also received us to the glory of God . * Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcised for the truth of God , to confirm the promises made to the fathers . * That the nations might glorify God for his mercy as it is written : »For this cause I will confess you to the people of the nations , and sing to your name .« * And again he says : »Rejoice , you nations , with his people .« (Deuteronomy strkjv @32:43 ) * And again : »Praise Jehovah , all you nations ; and laud him , all you people .« (Psalm strkjv @117:1 ) * And again , Isaiah says : »Then in that day the nations will search for and turn to the root of Jesse . He will stand as a signal for the peoples . His resting place will be glorious .« (Isaiah strkjv @11:10 ) * Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing , that you may abound in hope , through the power of the Holy Spirit . * I am also persuaded about you , my brothers , that you also are full of goodness , filled with all knowledge , able also to admonish one another . * Nevertheless , brothers , I have written more boldly to you on some points , keeping you in mind , because of the grace that is given to me from God , * That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the nations , ministering the good news of God , that the offering of these nations might be acceptable , being sanctified by the Holy Spirit . * I glory in Jesus Christ in my service to God . * I will not dare to speak of any of those things that Christ has not accomplished through me . I will lead the nations to obey God in word and deed . * Through mighty signs and wonders , by the power of the Spirit of God . From Jerusalem , and round about Illyricum , I have fully preached the good news of Christ . * I have strived to preach the good news , not where Christ was named , lest I should build upon another man ’s foundation : * It is written , »To whom he was not announced , they shall see : and those who have not heard shall understand .« (Isaiah strkjv @52:15 ) * For which cause also I have been much hindered from coming to you . * I have no more places to go in these parts , and have a great desire these many years to come to you . * When I take my journey to Spain , I will come to you . I trust to see you in my journey , and to be escorted on my way by you , after I have been satisfied with your company . * Now I go to Jerusalem to minister to the holy ones . * It pleased those of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor holy ones in Jerusalem . * It pleased them to do so and they are debtors for this . If the nations have been made partakers of their spiritual things , their duty is also to minister to them in physical things . * After I have performed this and have sealed to them this fruit , I will come to you in Spain . * I am sure that , when I come to you , I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the good news of Christ . * Now I beg you , brothers , for the Lord Jesus Christ ’s sake , and for the love of the Spirit , that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me . * That I may be delivered from those who do not believe in Judea ; and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted by the holy ones . * That I may come to you with joy by the will of God , and may with you be refreshed . * The God of peace be with you all . Amen .

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