13. And believing, the God of hope fills you with all joy and peace that ye may abound in hope by the virtue of the Holy Spirit.
14. But I am convinced regarding you, my brethren, that even without my exhortation ye are full of charity, full of all knowledge, so as to be able to admonish one another.
15. Nevertheless I have written, brethren, in part boldly, as admonishing you by the grace that is given to me of God,
16. being the minister of Jesus Christ, to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering of the Gentiles might be well pleasing, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
17. Therefore I have something to boast of in Christ Jesus, with regard to God.
18. For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not wrought by me, unto the obedience of the Gentiles, with word and with deed,
19. with power of signs and wonders, in virtue of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem and round about unto Illyricum, I have filled the entire area with the gospel of the Christ.
20. And in this manner I preached this gospel, not where Christ had been named previously, not to build upon a foundation belonging to another,
21. but, as it is written, To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see, and those that have not heard shall understand.
22. For which reason I have even been hindered many times from coming to you.
23. But now having more place in these parts and having a great desire these many years to come unto you,
24. when I leave for Spain, I will come unto you; for I trust to see you on my journey and to be taken there by you, if first I may enjoy your company.