17. I have therefore whereof to boast in Christ Jesus in the things which pertain to God.
18. For I will not dare to speak anything of the things which Christ has not wrought by me, for the obedience of the nations, by word and deed,
19. in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God; so that I, from Jerusalem, and in a circuit round to Illyricum, have fully preached the glad tidings of the Christ;
20. and so aiming to announce the glad tidings, not where Christ has been named, that I might not build upon another's foundation;
21. but according as it is written, To whom there was nothing told concerning him, they shall see; and they that have not heard shall understand.
22. Wherefore also I have been often hindered from coming to you.
23. But now, having no longer place in these regions, and having great desire to come to you these many years,
24. whenever I should go to Spain; (for I hope to see you as I go through, and by you to be set forward thither, if first I shall have been in part filled with your company;)
25. but now I go to Jerusalem, ministering to the saints;
26. for Macedonia and Achaia have been well pleased to make a certain contribution for the poor of the saints who are in Jerusalem.
27. They have been well pleased indeed, and they are their debtors; for if the nations have participated in their spiritual things, they ought also in fleshly to minister to them.