Romans 15:14-22
14 “I myself am convinced, my brothers and sisters, that you
yourselves are full of GOODNESS, filled
with knowledge 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
16 to be a minister of CHRIST JESUS to the Gentiles. HE gave me the priestly
duty of proclaiming THE
GOSPEL OF GOD, so that the Gentiles might become an
offering acceptable to GOD, sanctified by THE HOLY SPIRIT.
17 Therefore I glory in CHRIST JESUS in my service to GOD.
18 I will not venture to speak of anything except what CHRIST has
accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obey GOD by what I
have said and done—
19 by the power of signs and wonders, through the power of the SPIRIT
OF GOD. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have
fully proclaimed THE
GOSPEL OF CHRIST.
20 It has always been my ambition to preach THE GOSPEL where
CHRIST was
not known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation.
21 Rather, as it is written:
“Those who were not told about HIM will see,
and those who have not heard will
understand.”
22 This is why I have often been hindered from coming to you.”
