¹ We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

² Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good to edification.

³ For even Christ pleased not Himself; but, as it is written: The reproaches of them that reproached you fell on Me. ^{(Psalm 69 verse 9.)}

⁴ For whatsoever 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 would glorify [Yahweh] God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁷ Wherefore 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 unto 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 unto your Name.

¹⁰ And again He said: Rejoice, you Gentiles, along with His people. ^{(See Psalm 18 verse 49.)}

¹¹ And again, Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles; and laud Him, all you people of Israel. ^{(See Deuteronomy 32 verse.43.)}

¹² And again, Esaias [Isaiah] said: There shall be a root of Jesse, and He shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in Him shall the Gentiles trust. ^{(See Isaiah 11 verse 10.)}

¹³ Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in [your] believing, that you may abound in hope, through the Power of the Holy [Spirit] Ghost.

¹⁴ And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that you also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

¹⁵ Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto 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 wrought 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 unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

²⁰ Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation:

²¹ But as it is written, To whom He was not spoken of, they [the Gentiles] shall see: and they [the Gentiles] that have not heard shall [consider] understand. ^{(See Isaiah 52 verse 15.)}

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 years to come unto you;

²⁴ When ever 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 thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your company.

²⁵ But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto 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 verily pleased them for debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things.

²⁸ Therefore when I have performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit [money], I will come by you into Spain.

²⁹ And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fullness of the blessing of the Gospel of Christ.

³⁰ Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the Love of God's 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  my service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints;

³² That I may come unto 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. 

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