13. Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Ghost.
14. And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
15. But I write the more boldly unto you in some measure, as putting you again in remembrance, because of the grace that was given me of God,
16. that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus unto the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.
17. I have therefore my glorying in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.
18. For I will not dare to speak of any things save those which Christ wrought through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,
19. in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Ghost; so that from Jerusalem, and round about even unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ;
20. yea, making it my aim so to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build upon another man's foundation;
21. but, as it is written, They shall see, to whom no tidings of him came, And they who have not heard shall understand.
22. Wherefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you:
23. but now, having no more any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come unto you,
24. whensoever I go unto Spain (for I hope to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first in some measure I shall have been satisfied with your company)—
25. but now, I say, I go unto Jerusalem, ministering unto the saints.
26. For it hath been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints that are at Jerusalem.
27. Yea, it hath been their good pleasure; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to minister unto them in carnal things.
28. When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by you unto Spain.