6 15:14And I am persuaded, my brothers, even I myself, concerning you, that you are full of kindness, filled with all knowledge, and able to admonish one another; 15:15but I have written more boldly to you in part, to refresh your minds on account of the grace given me by God 15:16that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the nations, administering as a priest the gospel of God, that the offering of the nations may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. 15:17I have therefore cause of boasting in Christ Jesus in respect to things relating to God; 15:18for I dare not to speak of what Christ has not performed by me for the obedience of the nations, by word and work, 15:19by the power of miracles and prodigies, by the power of the Spirit, so that from Jerusalem and around as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ. 15:20And I have been anxious so to preach where Christ was not named, that I might not build on another's foundation; 15:21but as it is written, They shall see to whom nothing was told concerning him, and they who have not heard shall understand.
7 15:22Wherefore I was also much hindered from coming to you; 15:23but now having no longer a place in these regions, and having a desire to come to you for many years, 15:24should I go to Spain I will come to you; for I hope, going by, to see you, and to be sent forward by you there, when first I am in part filled with you. 15:25But now I am going to Jerusalem to serve the saints. 15:26For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make some contribution for the poor of the saints at Jerusalem. 15:27They have been pleased indeed, and their debtors they are; for if the nations have participated in their spiritual things, they ought also to serve them in things pertaining to the flesh. 15:28Having therefore performed this, and sealed to them this service, I will go by you to Spain; 15:29and I know that when I come to you I shall come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ. 15:30But I exhort you by the Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in prayers to God for me, 15:31that I may be delivered from those that obey not in Judea, and that my service which is for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints, 15:32that I may come to you with joy by the will of God, and be refreshed together with you. 15:33And may the God of peace be with you all; amen.
CHAPTER XI.
COMMENDATION OF PHOEBE, SALUTATIONS, ETC.
1 16:1AND I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a minister of the church in Cenchrea, 16:2that you receive her in the Lord worthily of the saints, and assist her in any thing in which she may have need of you; for she has been an assistant of many, and of myself also.
2 16:3Salute Prisca [Priscilla] and Aquila my co-laborers in Christ Jesus, 16:4who exposed their necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks but all the churches of the nations; 16:5and [salute] the assembly at their house. Salute Epenetus my beloved, who is the first fruit of Asia to Christ. 16:6Salute Mary, who labored much for us. 16:7Salute Andronicus and Junius, my relatives and my fellow-captives, who are distinguished among the apostles, and who were before me in Christ. 16:8Salute Amplias my beloved in the Lord. 16:9Salute Urbanus our co-laborer in Christ, and Stachus my beloved. 16:10Salute Apelles, the approved in Christ. Salute those of the [family] of Aristobulus. 16:11Salute Herodion, my relative. Salute those of the [family] of Narcissus who are in the Lord. 16:12Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labored in the Lord. Salute Persis the beloved, who labored much in the Lord. 16:13Salute Rufus the elect in the Lord, and his mother and mine. 16:14Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers with them. 16:15Salute Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints with them. 16:16Salute one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ salute you.
3 16:17I exhort you, brothers, to observe those that cause dissensions and offenses contrary to the teaching which you learned, and avoid them; 16:18for such serve not our anointed Lord, but themselves, And by kind and complimentary words deceive the minds of the simple. 16:19For your obedience has come to all; I rejoice in you therefore, but I wish you to be wise for that which is good, and simple for evil. 16:20And the God of peace shall crush Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
4 16:21Timothy my co-laborer salutes you, and Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my relatives. 16:22I, Tertius, who wrote the epistle, salute you in the Lord. 16:23Gaius my entertainer, and the entertainer of all the church, salutes you. Erastus the treasurer of the city and Quartus the brother salute you. 16:24The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all; amen.
5 16:25And to him that is able to confirm you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery not revealed in ancient times, 16:26but made manifest now by the scriptures of the prophets, by the command of the eternal God, for the obedience of the faith among all nations, 16:27to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to him be the glory forever; amen.