For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that through patience and through comfort of the scriptures we might have hope.
For I say that Christ hath been made a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises {cf15i given} unto the fathers,
and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, Therefore will I give praise unto thee among the Gentiles, And sing unto thy name.
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.
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.
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;
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)--
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 {cf15i to them} also to minister unto them in carnal things.
that I may be delivered from them that are disobedient in Judaea, and {cf15i that} my ministration which {cf15i I have} for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints;