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| 1 Now we that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. |
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| 2 Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, unto edifying. |
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| 3 For Christ also pleased not himself; but as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell upon me. |
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| 4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that through patience and through comfort of the scriptures we might have hope. |
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| 5 Now the God of patience and of comfort grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus: |
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| 6 that with one accord ye may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. |
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| 7 Wherefore receive ye one another, even as Christ also received you, to the glory of God. |
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| 8 For I say that Christ hath been made a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given unto the fathers, |
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9 and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written,Therefore will I confess unto thee among the Gentiles,
And sing unto thy name.
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10 And again he saith,
Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.
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11 And again,
Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles;
And let all the peoples praise him.
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12 And again Isaiah saith,
There shall be the root of Jesse,
And he that ariseth to rule over the Gentiles;
On him shall the Gentiles hope. |
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| 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 Spirit. |
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| 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. |
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| 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, |
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| 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 Spirit. |
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| 17 I have therefore my glorying in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God. |
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| 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, |
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| 19 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about even unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ; |
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| 20 yes, 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; |
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21 but, as it is written,They shall see, to whom no tidings of him came,
And they who have not heard shall understand. |
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| 22 Wherefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you: |
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| 23 but now, having no more any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come unto you, |
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| 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). |
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| 25 but now, I say, I go unto Jerusalem, ministering unto the saints. |
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| 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. |
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| 27 Yes, 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. |
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| 28 When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by you unto Spain. |
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| 29 And I know that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of Christ. |
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| 30 Now I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me; |
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| 31 that I may be delivered from them that are disobedient in Judea, and that my ministration which I have for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints; |
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| 32 that I may come unto you in joy through the will of God, and together with you find rest. |
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| 33 Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen. |
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