EMTV - Romans - 15

15:1  We then who are strong are obligated to bear with the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

15:2  Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, leading to edification.

15:3  For even Christ did not please Himself; but as it is written, "THE REPROACHES OF THOSE REPROACHING YOU FELL ON ME."

15:4  For as many things as were previously written, were written for our own instruction, that through the patience and encouragement of the Scriptures we may have hope.

15:5  Now may the God of patience and encouragement grant you to be like-minded among one another, according to Christ Jesus,

15:6  so that you may with one accord and one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

15:7  Therefore receive one another, just as also Christ received you, to the glory of God.

15:8  Now I say that Christ Jesus has become a servant to the circumcision for the truth of God, in order to confirm the promises given to the fathers,

15:9  and that the Gentiles might glorify God on behalf of His mercy, as it is written: "FOR THIS REASON I WILL CONFESS TO YOU AMONG THE GENTILES, AND I WILL SING PRAISE TO YOUR NAME."

15:10  And again he says: "REJOICE, O GENTILES, WITH HIS PEOPLE!"

15:11  And again: "PRAISE THE LORD, ALL YOU GENTILES! PRAISE HIM, ALL YOU PEOPLES!"

15:12  And again, Isaiah says: "THERE SHALL BE THE ROOT OF JESSE; AND HE THAT SHALL RISE TO RULE OVER THE GENTILES, IN HIM THE GENTILES SHALL HOPE."

15:13  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.

15:14  Now I myself am confident concerning you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, having been filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

15:15  And I write more boldly to you brothers, in part, as reminding you, because of the grace given to me by God,

15:16  that I should be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God as a priest, so that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

15:17  Therefore I have something to boast of in Christ Jesus in the things pertaining to God.

15:18  For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ did not work out through me, in word and deed, for the obedience of the Gentiles—

15:19  in mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem and as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

15:20  And so eagerly striving to evangelize not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon the foundation of another,

15:21  but as it is written: "TO WHOM HE WAS NOT ANNOUNCED, THEY SHALL SEE; AND THOSE WHO HAVE NOT HEARD SHALL UNDERSTAND."

15:22  For this reason I also have been hindered many times from coming to you.

15:23  But now no longer having a place in these regions, and having a longing to come to you for many years,

15:24  whenever I travel to Spain, I shall come to you. For I hope while traveling through to see you, and to be sent forward there by you, if I may be filled in part from you first.

15:25  But now I am traveling to Jerusalem, ministering to the saints.

15:26  For Macedonia and Achaia thought it good to make some contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.

15:27  For they thought it good, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles shared in spiritual things, they are obligated also to minister to them in material things.

15:28  Therefore, having finished and having sealed to them this fruit, I shall go by way of you to Spain.

15:29  But I know that when I come to you, I shall come in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.

15:30  Now I beseech you, brothers, through the Lord Jesus Christ, and through the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in prayers to God on my behalf,

15:31  that I may be delivered from those in Judea who do not believe, and that my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,

15:32  so that in joy I may come to you through the will of God, and may be refreshed together with you.

15:33  Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.