14. Now I myself am persuaded concerning you, my brothers, that you too are filled with goodness, complete in all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
15. But I have written more boldly to you, in part, as reminding you, because of the favour given to me by Elohim,
16. to be a servant of יהושע Messiah to the gentiles, with the priestly duty of bringing the Good News of Elohim, so that the offering of the gentiles becomes acceptable, set apart by the Set-apart Spirit.
17. Therefore I have cause for boasting in Messiah יהושע in the matters pertaining to Elohim.
18. For I shall not presume to speak of any matter except what Messiah has worked out through me, in word and deed, to make the gentiles obedient,
19. in power of signs and wonders, in power of the Spirit of Elohim, so that from Yerushalayim and round about to Illurikon I have completed the preaching of the Good News of Messiah.
20. And so I was ambitious to bring the Good News where Messiah had not been named, lest I should build on another man’s foundation,
21. but as it has been written, “To whom it was not announced concerning Him, they shall see, and those that have not heard shall understand.”
22. This is why I was often hindered from coming to you.
23. But now, no longer having a place in these parts, and having a longing to come to you for many years,