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8 For I declare Christ to have become a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, in order to confirm the promises given to the fathers,
9 and for the Gentiles to glorify God for mercy, as it has been written: “Because of this I will praise You among the Gentiles, and will I sing to Your name.”
10 And again it says: “Rejoice you Gentiles, with His people.”
11 And again: “Praise the Lord, all the Gentiles, and praise Him, all the peoples.”
12 And again, Isaiah says: “There will be the root of Jesse, and the One arising to rule over the Gentiles; in Him the Gentiles will hope.”
13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, for you to abound in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit.
14 And I myself also am persuaded concerning you my brothers, that you yourselves are also full of goodness, being filled with all knowledge, and being able to admonish one another.
15 But I have written to you more boldly in part, as reminding you, because of the grace having been given to me by God
16 for me to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, administering the sacred service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles might become acceptable, having been sanctified in the Holy Spirit.
17 Therefore I have the boasting in Christ Jesus in the things pertaining to God.
18 For I will not dare to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me unto the obedience of the Gentiles by word and deed,
19 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God, so as for me, from Jerusalem and around unto Illyricum, to have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ,