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Romans - ch 15 v 1 - 20
- Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
- Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.
- For even Christ didn't please himself. But, as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me."1
- For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
- Now the God of patience and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus,
- that with one accord you may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you,2 to the glory of God.
- Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,
- and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "Therefore will I give praise to you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name."3
- Again he says, "Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people."4
- Again, "Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles! Let all the peoples praise him."5
- Again, Isaiah says, "There will be the root of Jesse, he who arises to rule over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles will hope."6
- Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
- I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers7, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.
- But I write the more boldly to you in part, as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God,
- that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
- I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.
- For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,
- in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God's Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;
- yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build on another's foundation.
- Psalm 69:9
- TR reads "us" instead of "you"
- 2 Samuel 22:50; Psalm 18:49
- Deuteronomy 32:43
- Psalm 117:1
- Isaiah 11:10
- The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
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