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¹ We then who are strong, ought to bear the infirmity of the weak, and not to please ourselves.² But each of us should please his neighbor, in good things, as conducive to edification.³ Because Messiah also did not please himself; but, as it is written: The reviling of thy revilers fell upon me.⁴ For every thing written of old, was written for our instruction; that we, by patience and by the consolation of the scriptures, might possess hope.

⁵ And may the God of patience and of consolation, grant to you, to think in harmony one with another, in Jesus Messiah;⁶ so that with one mind and one mouth, ye may glorify God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Messiah.

⁷ Wherefore, receive ye and bear up one another, as also Messiah received you, to the glory of God.⁸ Now I say, that Jesus Messiah ministered to the circumcision, in behalf of the truth of God, in order to confirm the promise [fn] to the fathers; ⁹ and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercies upon them, as it is written: I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and to thy name will I sing psalms.¹⁰ And again he said: Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.¹¹ And again he said: Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; [fn] laud him, all ye nations. ¹² And again Isaiah said: There will be a root of Jesse; and he that shall arise, will be a prince for the Gentiles; and in him will the Gentiles hope.

¹³ Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace, by faith; that ye may abound in his hope, by the power of the Holy Spirit.

¹⁴ Now I am persuaded, my Brethren, even I, concerning you; that ye too are full of goodness, and are replenished with all knowledge, and are able also to instruct others.¹⁵ Yet I have written rather boldly to you, my Brethren, that I might put you in remembrance; because of the grace which is given to me by God,¹⁶ that I should be a minister of Jesus Messiah among the Gentiles, and should subserve the gospel of God, that the oblation of the Gentiles might be acceptable, and be sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

¹⁷ I have therefore a glorying in Jesus Messiah, before God.¹⁸ Yet I presume not to speak of any thing [fn] for the obedience of the Gentiles, which Messiah hath not wrought by me, in word and in deeds, ¹⁹ by the power of signs and wonders, and by the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem I have made a circuit quite to Illyricum, and have fulfilled the announcement of the Messiah;²⁰ while I was careful not to preach where the name of Messiah had been invoked, lest I should build upon another man's foundation;²¹ but, it is written: They, to whom mention of him had not been made, will see him; and they, who had not heard, will be obedient.

²² And on this account, I have been many times prevented from coming to you.²³ But now, since I have no place in these regions, and as I have been desirous for many years past to come to you,²⁴ when I go to Spain, I hope to come and see you; and that ye will accompany me thither, when I shall have been satisfied, in some measure, with visiting you.²⁵ But I am now going to Jerusalem, to minister to the saints.²⁶ For they of Macedonia and Achaia, have been willing to make up a contribution for the needy saints who are at Jerusalem.²⁷ They were willing, because they were also debtors to them: for if the Gentiles have been participators with them in the Spirit, they are debtors to serve them also in things of the flesh.²⁸ When therefore, I shall have accomplished this, and shall have sealed to them this fruit, I will pass by you into Spain.²⁹ And I know that when I come to you, I shall come in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel of Messiah.

³⁰ And I beseech you, my Brethren, by our Lord Jesus Messiah, and by the love of the Spirit, that ye labor with me in prayer to God for me;³¹ that I may be delivered from them in Judaea, who believe not and that the ministration, which I carry to the saints in Jerusalem, may be well received;³² and that, by the good pleasure of God, I may come to you with joy, and may take comfort with you.³³ And may the God of peace be with you all: Amen.