Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Brothers, I Wrote To You As a Minister of Christ To The Gentiles, Serving The Gospel

¹⁴ Now I am convinced, my brothers— even I myself concerning you— that you yourselves also are full of goodness, having been filled with all knowledge, being able also to admonish one another. ¹⁵ But I wrote more-boldly^[a] to you, in part^[b] as reminding you again, because of the grace having been given to me by God ¹⁶ so that I might be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, performing-priestly-service-for^[c] the good-news of God in order that the offering of ^[d] the Gentiles might become acceptable^[e], having been sanctified^[f] by the Holy Spirit.

My Ministry of The Gospel To Gentiles Who Have Not Heard Is My Boast And My Ambition

¹⁷ I then have this boasting^[g] in Christ Jesus as to the things pertaining to God— ¹⁸ for I will not dare^[h] to speak anything of things which Christ did not accomplish through me in word and deed for^[i] the obedience of the Gentiles, ¹⁹ by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God— so-that from Jerusalem and around as far as Illyricum^[j] I have completed^[k] the good-news of Christ, ²⁰ and was thus being ambitious^[l] to be announcing-the-good-news where Christ was not named in order that I might not be building upon a foundation belonging-to-another, ²¹ but just as it has been written [in Isa 52:15]: “Ones to whom it was not declared concerning Him will see, and they who have not heard will understand”.