I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, complete in knowledge and competent to instruct one another. I have written you quite boldly on some points, as if to remind you of them again, because of the grace GOD gave me to be a minister of CHRIST JESUS to the Gentiles with the priestly duty of proclaiming the gospel of GOD, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to GOD, sanctified by THE HOLY SPIRIT.
Therefore I glory in CHRIST JESUS in my service to GOD. I will not venture to speak of anything except what CHRIST has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obey GOD by what I have said and done--by the power of signs and miracles, through the power of THE SPIRIT. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of CHRIST. It has always been my ambition to preach the gospel where CHRIST was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else's foundation. Rather, as it is written:
"Those who were not told about HIM will see,
and those who have not heard will understand."
This is why I have often been hindered from coming to you.
Paul's Letter to the Romans: chapter 15, verses 14 - 22
Therefore I glory in CHRIST JESUS in my service to GOD. I will not venture to speak of anything except what CHRIST has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obey GOD by what I have said and done--by the power of signs and miracles, through the power of THE SPIRIT. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of CHRIST. It has always been my ambition to preach the gospel where CHRIST was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else's foundation. Rather, as it is written:
"Those who were not told about HIM will see,
and those who have not heard will understand."
This is why I have often been hindered from coming to you.
Paul's Letter to the Romans: chapter 15, verses 14 - 22
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