¹Now we who are strong ought ourselves to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

²For each of us should please the neighbour unto the good, for edification.

³For even the Anointed One did not please Himself, but even as it has been written: The reproaches of those reproaching You fell on Me.

⁴For as much as was written in the past was written for our own instruction, so that through the endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we may have the hope.

⁵Now may the God of endurance and the encouragement give you to be of the same mind with one another according to the Anointed One Jesus,

⁶so that with one accord, with one mouth, you may glorify God and Father of our Lord Jesus the Anointed One.

⁷Therefore receive one another, even as also the Anointed One received you, to the glory of God.

⁸For I say the Anointed One Jesus has become a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, in order to confirm the promises given to the fathers,

⁹and for the nations to glorify God for compassion, even as it has been written: Because of this I will praise You among the nations, and to your name will I sing.

¹⁰And again it says: Rejoice, you nations, with his people.

¹¹And again: Praise the Lord, all you who are nations, and let all the peoples praise Him.

¹²And again Isaiah says: There will be the root of Jesse, and the One who arises to rule over nations; in Him the nations will hope.

¹³And may the God of hope fill you with all joy and wholeness in the trusting, for you to abound in the hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

¹⁴Now I myself have been persuaded, my brothers, concerning you, that you yourselves also are full of goodness, filled with all the knowledge, being able also to admonish one another.

¹⁵However, I have written to you more boldly in part, brothers, as reminding you, because of the favor which having been given to me by God,

¹⁶for me to be a minister of the Anointed One Jesus to the nations, administering the sacred service of the good news of God, so that the offering of the nations may become acceptable, sanctified in the Holy Spirit.

¹⁷Therefore I have the boasting in the Anointed One Jesus, in the things pertaining to God;

¹⁸for I will not dare to speak anything except of what the Anointed One has accomplished through me unto the obedience of the nations, by word and by deed,

¹⁹in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God, so as for me from Jerusalem and around unto Illyricum to have fully proclaimed the good news of the Anointed One.

²⁰Now thus being ambitious to bring good news not where the Anointed One was named, so that I may not build upon another's foundation,

²¹but even as it has been written: To whom it was not proclaimed concerning Him, they will behold, and those that have not heard will understand.

²²Therefore also I was being hindered the many times to come to you.

²³However, now no longer having a place in these regions, and now having had a great desire to come to you for many years,

²⁴whenever I shall go to Spain, I will come to you, for I hope, going through, to see you and by you to be equipped there, if first in part I shall be filled by you.

²⁵However, now I am going to Jerusalem, ministering to the holy ones.

²⁶For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a certain contribution for the poor among the holy ones in Jerusalem;

²⁷for they were pleased, and they are their debtors; for if the nations shared in their spiritual things, they ought also to minister to them in the material things.

²⁸Therefore, when I had finished this and had sealed to them this fruit, I will set off through you into Spain.

²⁹Now I know that, coming to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the good news of the Anointed One.

³⁰Now I exhort you, brothers, through our Lord Jesus the Anointed One and through the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in the prayers for me to God,

³¹so that I may be delivered from those refusing to be persuaded in Judea, and so that my service which is in Jerusalem may become acceptable to the holy ones,

³²so that, having come to you in joy through the will of God, I may be refreshed with you.

³³And may the God of wholeness be with you all. Amen.