¹ Now we, the mighty, ought to bear the weaknesses of the powerless and not to please ourselves.

² Let each of us please his neighbor $for what is the good thing toward building him up.

³ For$ also Christ did not please himself, but, as it has been written, ‘The reproaches of the ones reproaching you fell upon me.’ {Psa 69:9}

⁴ For$ as many things as were written beforehand, were written beforehand $for our instruction in-order-that through the endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have the hope.

⁵ Now may the God of the endurance and the encouragement give to you° to be mindful of the same thing among one another according-to Christ Jesus,

⁶ in-order-that you° may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ united with$ one mouth.

⁷ Hence receive° for yourselves one another, just-as Christ also received you° to the glory of God.

⁸ But I am saying Christ Jesus has become a servant of the circumcision on behalf of the truth of God, $that$ he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,

⁹ and that the Gentiles are to glorify God on behalf of his mercy; as it has been written, ‘Because of this, I will profess you among the Gentiles and sing-praise to your name.’ {Psa 18:49}

¹⁰ And again he says, ‘Gentiles be° joyous with his people.’ {Deu 32:43}

¹¹ And again, ‘Praise° the Lord, all the Gentiles, and praise° him all the peoples.’ {Psa 117:1}

¹² And again, Isaiah says, ‘There will be the root of Jesse and he who was raised$ up to rule over the Gentiles; upon him the Gentiles will hope.’ {Isa 11:1, 10}

¹³ Now the God of hope may fill you° from all joy and peace while$ you° believe, $that$ you° may abound in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit.

¹⁴ And my brethren, I myself also have confidence concerning you°, that you° yourselves are full of goodness, and have been filled with all knowledge, being able also to admonish others.

¹⁵ But partially I wrote more-daringly to you° brethren, as reminding you° again, because of the grace which was given to me by God,

¹⁶ $that$ I might be a minister$ of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, performing the sacred work of the good-news of God, in-order-that the offering from the Gentiles might become acceptable, and have been made holy in the Holy Spirit.

¹⁷ Therefore, I have my boasting in Christ Jesus in the things pertaining to God.

¹⁸ For$ I will not dare to speak of anything of which Christ has not worked through me, except $for the obedience of the Gentiles, in word and in work,

¹⁹ in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God, so-then, as for me to have fulfilled the good-news of the Christ from Jerusalem and surrounding areas, as far as Illyricum.

²⁰ And so, I am making it my aim to proclaim the good-news, not where Christ was already named, in-order-that I may not build upon another’s foundation,

²¹ but, as it has been written, ‘They will see, to whom it was not reported concerning him and those who have not heard, they will understand.’ {Isa 52:15}

²² Hence also, I was being hindered by the many things from coming to you°,

²³ but now, having no longer a place in these districts and having a longing to come to you° from many years ago,

²⁴ like whenever I travel toward Spain, I will be coming to you° (for$ I am hoping to see you° while I am traveling through and to be sent onward from there by you°, if first I may be partially filled from you°).

²⁵ But now, I am traveling to Jerusalem, serving the holy-ones.

²⁶ For$ Macedonia and Achaia were delighted to make$ a certain generosity$ to the poor of the holy-ones in Jerusalem.

²⁷ For$ they were delighted and they are their debtors. For$ if the Gentiles shared in the spiritual things of them, they owe it to them also to minister$ to them in the fleshly things.

²⁸ Therefore, I completed this thing and sealed this fruit for them, and I will be going away into Spain through you°.

²⁹ Now I know while coming to you°, I will be coming in the fullness of the blessing of the good-news of the Christ.

³⁰ Now brethren, I am encouraging you° through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love$ of the Spirit, to struggle together-with me, and on my behalf in the prayers to God from you°;

³¹ in-order-that I might be rescued away from the ones who are disobedient in Judea and in-order-that my service, the one I have $for Jerusalem might become acceptable to the holy-ones,

³² in-order-that I may come to you° in joy through the will of God and I may rest together-with you°.

³³ Now the God of peace is with all of you°. Amen.