1 And we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of those who are not strong, and not to please ourselves.
2 Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.
3 For even Christ did not please himself; but, as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached you fell upon me."
4 For whatever things were written beforehand were written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the consolation of the Scriptures we might have hope.
5 Now may the God of endurance and of consolation grant you to be like-minded toward one another according to Christ Jesus,
6 that with one accord, with one mouth, you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
7 Therefore receive one another, even as Christ also received us, to the glory of God.
8 Now I say that Jesus Christ has become a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made to the fathers,
9 and that the Gentiles might glorify God for mercy; even as it is written, "For this cause I will confess to you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name."
10 And again he says, "Rejoice, Gentiles, with his people."
11 And again, "Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and laud him, all you peoples."
12 And again Isaiah says, "There will be the root of Jesse, and he who rises to rule over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles will hope."
13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
14 And I myself also am persuaded concerning you, my brothers, that you yourselves also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
15 Nevertheless I have written to you more boldly in part, as reminding you, because of the grace given to me by God,
16 that I should be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God as a priestly service, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
17 Therefore I have my boasting in Christ Jesus in the things that pertain to God.
18 For I will not dare to speak of any of the things which Christ has not worked through me for the obedience of the Gentiles, in word and deed,
19 by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about as far as Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ;
20 and so I have made it my aim to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, that I might not build upon another man's foundation;
21 but, as it is written, "Those to whom nothing was announced concerning him will see; and those who have not heard will understand."
22 For this reason also I have often been hindered from coming to you.
23 But now, no longer having room in these regions, and having had a longing these many years to come to you,
24 whenever I journey to Spain I will come to you; for I hope to see you as I pass through, and to be sent on my way there by you, if first I may be partly filled with your company.
25 But now I am going to Jerusalem, ministering to the saints.
26 For it pleased Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints who are in Jerusalem.
27 For it pleased them indeed, and they are their debtors; for if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual things, they ought also to minister to them in fleshly things.
28 When, then, I have completed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will set out by way of you into Spain.
29 And I know that, coming to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.
30 Now I exhort you, brothers, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf,
31 that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my ministry for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,
32 that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and may be refreshed together with you.
33 Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.