¹ We then that are strong should to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. ² + Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification. ³ For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The rebukes of them that reproached you fell on me. ⁴ For anything things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. ⁵ Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another+ according to Christ Jesus: ⁶ That you may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁷ why receive you one another, as+ Christ also received us to the glory of God. ⁸ Now I say that Jesus Christ was 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 his mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name. ¹⁰ And again he said, Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people. ¹¹ And again, Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles; and laud him, all you people. ¹² And again, Isaiah said, There will be a root of Jesse, and he that will rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him will the Gentiles trust. ¹³ 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 Ghost. ¹⁴ And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brothers, that you also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another. ¹⁵ Nevertheless, brothers, I have written the more boldly to you in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me of God, ¹⁶ That I should be+ the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost. ¹⁷ I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God. ¹⁸ For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not worked by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed, ¹⁹ Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about to Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ. ²⁰ Yes, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, in case I should build on another man's foundation: ²¹ But as it is written, To who he was not spoken of, they will see: and they that have not heard will understand. ²² For which cause also I have been much hindered from coming to you. ²³ But now having no more place in these+ parts, and having a great desire these many But now having no more place in these+ parts, and having a great desire these many years to come to you;rs to come to you; ²⁴ Whenever+ I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way toward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your [company]. ²⁵ But now I go to Jerusalem to minister to the saints. ²⁶ For it has pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem. ²⁷ It has pleased them truly; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister to them in carnal things. ²⁸ When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will come by you into Spain. ²⁹ And I am sure that, when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ. ³⁰ 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; ³¹ That I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Judaea; and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints; ³² That I may come to you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed. ³³ Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.