Romans 15:13-20

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¹³ May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace^(A) as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.^(B)

Paul the Minister to the Gentiles

¹⁴ I myself am convinced, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness,^(C) filled with knowledge^(D) and competent to instruct one another. ¹⁵ Yet I have written you quite boldly on some points to remind you of them again, because of the grace God gave me^{(E) 16} to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles.^(F) He gave me the priestly duty of proclaiming the gospel of God,^(G) so that the Gentiles might become an offering^(H) acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

¹⁷ Therefore I glory in Christ Jesus^(I) in my service to God.^{(J) 18} I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles^(K) to obey God^(L) by what I have said and done— ¹⁹ by the power of signs and wonders,^(M) through the power of the Spirit of God.^(N) So from Jerusalem^(O) all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.^{(P) 20} It has always been my ambition to preach the gospel^(Q) where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation.^(R)