6. that ye may with one accord, with one mouth, glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
7. Wherefore receive ye one another, according as the Christ also has received you to the glory of God.
8. For I say that Jesus Christ became a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises of the fathers;
9. and that the nations should glorify God for mercy; according as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the nations, and will sing to thy name.
10. And again he says, Rejoice, nations, with his people.
11. And again, Praise the Lord, all ye nations, and let all the peoples laud him.
12. And again, Esaias says, There shall be the root of Jesse, and one that arises, to rule over the nations: in him shall the nations hope.
13. Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that ye should abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
14. But I am persuaded, my brethren, I myself also, concerning you, that yourselves also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
15. But I have written to you the more boldly, brethren, in part, as putting you in mind, because of the grace given to me by God,
16. for me to be minister of Christ Jesus to the nations, carrying on as a sacrificial service the message of glad tidings of God, in order that the offering up of the nations might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
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.