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📚✭We then who are strong ought to bear with the scruples of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2 📚Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to build him up. 3 📚✭For even Christ did not please himself, but, as it is written, The insults of those who insulted you fell on me.4 📚✭For whatever things were written previously were written for our instruction, so that we, through patient endurance and the encouragement✭ of the Scriptures, might have hope.
5 📚Now the God of patience and encouragement grant you to be of the same mind✭ toward one another, in accordance with Christ Jesus, 6 📚that you may, with one mind and one mouth, glorify✭ God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Christ’s example
7 📚Therefore receive one another, just as Christ received us, to the glory of God. 8 📚Now I say that Jesus Christ became a servant✭ to the circumcised for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made to the fathers, 9 📚✭and to cause the Gentiles to glorify God for his mercy. As it is written,
For this cause I will confess
you among the Gentiles,
and sing to your name.
10 📚✭And again he says, 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 says,
There will be a root of Jesse,
and he who will rise to reign
over the Gentiles.
In him the Gentiles will trust.
Concluding prayer
13 📚✭Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may overflow with hope, through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Paul’s work and desire to visit Rome
14 📚✭And I myself am persuaded about you, my brethren, that you also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another. 15 📚✭Nevertheless, brethren, I have written very boldly to you on some points, as a reminder to you, because of the grace that is given to me by God, 16 📚✭that I should be a servant 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 Spirit.
17 📚✭Therefore I have reason to glory in Jesus Christ in the things of God. 18 📚For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not done through me to make the Gentiles obedient. But by word and deed, 19 📚✭through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum. 20 📚✭And I have made it my ambition to preach the gospel where Christ was not named, so that I would not be building upon another man’s foundation, 21 📚but as it is written,
To whom it was not told,
they will see, and those who have not
heard will understand.
22 📚✭For this reason 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 years to come to you, 24 📚✭when I take my journey to Spain, I will come to you. For I hope to see you on my journey, and to be sent on my way there by you, if first I can enjoy your company for a while.
25 📚✭But now I am going to Jerusalem to minister to the saints. 26 📚For it has pleased those of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints who are at Jerusalem. 27 📚It has pleased them indeed, and they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister to them in material things. 28 📚Therefore when I have accomplished this, and have made certain that they get this fruit✭, I will go to Spain by way of you. 29 📚✭And I am sure that when I come to you, I will come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.
30 📚✭Now I plead with you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ’s sake, and for the love of the Spirit, to strive✭ together with me in your prayers to God for me, 31 📚✭so that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my service for Jerusalem may be accepted by 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.