New Testament in a Year
14 [a]And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that [b]ye also are full of goodness, and filled with all knowledge, and are able to admonish one another.
15 Nevertheless, brethren, I have somewhat boldly after a sort written unto you, as one that putteth you in remembrance, through the grace that is given me of God,
16 That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ toward the Gentiles, ministering the Gospel of God, that the [c]offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the holy Ghost.
17 [d]I have therefore whereof I may rejoice in Christ Jesus in those things which pertain to God.
18 For I dare not speak of anything, which [e]Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient in word and deed,
19 With the [f]power of signs and wonders, by the power of the spirit of God: so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have caused to abound the Gospel of Christ.
20 Yea, so I enforced myself to preach the Gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should have built on another man’s foundation.
21 But as it is written, (A)To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see him, and they that heard not, shall understand him.
22 (B)[g]Therefore also I have been oft let to come unto you:
23 But now seeing I have no more place in these quarters, and also have (C)been desirous many years agone to come unto you,
24 When I shall 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, after that I have been somewhat filled with your company.
25 But now go I to Jerusalem, to [h]minister unto the Saints.
26 For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia, to make a certain distribution unto the poor Saints which are at Jerusalem.
27 [i]For it hath pleased them, and their debtors are they: (D)for if the Gentiles be made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to [j]minister unto them in carnal things.
28 When I have therefore performed this, and have [k]sealed them this [l]fruit, I will pass by you into Spain.
29 [m]And I know when I come, that I shall come to you with abundance of the blessing of the Gospel of Christ.
30 Also brethren, I beseech you for our Lord Jesus Christ’s sake, and for the [n]love of the spirit, that ye would strive with me by prayers to God for me,
31 That I may be delivered from them which are disobedient in Judea, and that my service which I have to do at 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 Thus the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
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