1 Now we who [are] strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the powerless and not to please ourselves. VP
2 Let each of us please the neighbor unto good, for building up. VP
3 For even Christ did not please Himself, but as it has been written: “The reproaches of those reproaching You fell on Me.” VP
4 For as much as was written before was all written for our instruction, so that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have the hope. VP
5 Now may the God of endurance and encouragement grant you⁺ to be of the same mind with one another, according to Christ Jesus, VP
6 so that with one accord, with one mouth, you⁺ may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. VP
7 Therefore, receive one another as Christ also received you⁺, to [the] glory of God. VP
8 For I say [that] Christ has become a servant of [the] circumcision for [the] truth of God, in order to confirm the promises to the fathers, VP
9 and [for] the Gentiles to glorify God for [His] mercy, as it has been written: “Because of this I will praise You among [the] Gentiles, and I will sing praises to Your name.” VP
10 And again it says: “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people.” VP
11 And again: “Praise the Lord, all [you⁺] Gentiles, and extol Him, all [you⁺] peoples.” VP
12 And again, Isaiah says: “There will be the Root of Jesse, and [One] arising to rule over [the] Gentiles; in Him [the] Gentiles will hope.” VP
13 And may the God of hope fill you⁺ with all joy and peace in believing, for you⁺ to abound in hope in [the] power [of] [the] Holy Spirit. VP
14 And I am persuaded—I myself also—concerning you⁺, my brothers, that you⁺ yourselves are also full of goodness, being filled with all knowledge, and being able to admonish one another. VP
15 But I wrote to you⁺ more boldly, in part as reminding you⁺, because of the grace having been given to me by God VP
16 for me to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest in the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles might become acceptable, having been sanctified in [the] Holy Spirit. VP
17 Therefore I have ground for boasting in Christ Jesus [in] the [things] pertaining to God. VP
18 For I will not dare to speak of anything that Christ did not work through me for [the] obedience of [the] Gentiles by word and deed, VP
19 in [the] power of signs and wonders, in [the] power of [the] Spirit of God, so as for me, from Jerusalem and around as far as Illyricum, to have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ, VP
20 and thus to strive to preach the gospel where Christ was not named, so that I might not build upon another’s foundation. VP
21 But as it has been written: “They will see, to whom it was not announced concerning Him; and those who have not heard will understand.” VP
22 Therefore also I was being hindered many [times] from coming to you⁺. VP
23 But now, no longer having a place in these regions, and having a great desire for many years, to come to you⁺ VP
24 when I may go to Spain. For I hope, going through, to see you⁺ and to be sent forth there by you⁺, if first I should be filled up of you⁺ in part. VP
25 But now I am going to Jerusalem, serving the saints. VP
26 For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make some contribution for the poor of the saints who [are] in Jerusalem. VP
27 For they were pleased, and they are debtors of them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual [things], they ought also in the fleshly [things] to minister to them. VP
28 Therefore, having completed this, and having sealed this fruit to them, I will depart through you⁺ to Spain. VP
29 And I know that coming to you⁺, I will come in [the] fullness of the blessing of Christ. VP
30 Now I exhort you⁺, brothers, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in the prayers for me to God, VP
31 so that I may be delivered from the unbelieving [ones] in Judea, and [that] my service in Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints, VP
32 so that having come to you⁺ in joy, through [the] will of God I may be refreshed together with you⁺. VP
33 Now the God of peace [be] with all of you⁺. Amen. VP