015:013 May God, the giver of hope, fill you with continual joy and peace
because you trust in Him—so that you may have abundant hope
through the power of the Holy Spirit.
015:014 But as to you, brethren, I am convinced—yes, I Paul am convinced— that, even apart from my teaching, you are already full of goodness of heart, and enriched with complete Christian knowledge, and are also competent to instruct one another.
015:015 But I write to you the more boldly—partly as reminding you of what you already know—because of the authority graciously entrusted to me by God,
015:016 that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus among the Gentiles, doing priestly duties in connexion with God's Good News so that the sacrifice—namely the Gentiles—may be acceptable to Him, being (as it is) an offering which the Holy Spirit has made holy.
015:017 I can therefore glory in Christ Jesus concerning the work for God in which I am engaged.
015:018 For I will not presume to mention any of the results that Christ has brought about by other agency than mine in securing the obedience of the Gentiles by word or deed,
015:019 with power manifested in signs and marvels, and through the power of the Holy Spirit. But—to speak simply of my own labours— beginning in Jerusalem and the outlying districts, I have proclaimed without reserve, even as far as Illyricum, the Good News of the Christ;
015:020 making it my ambition, however, not to tell the Good News
where Christ's name was already known, for fear I should be
building on another man's foundation.
015:021 But, as Scripture says, "Those shall see, to whom no report
about Him has hitherto come, and those who until now have
not heard shall understand."
015:022 And it is really this which has again and again prevented my coming to you.