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8 And I say, Jesus Christ has become a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made to the fathers,
9 and that the nations might glorify God for His mercy, as it is written, "For this cause I will confess to You in the nations, and I will praise Your name."
10 And again He says, "Rejoice, O nations, with His people."
11 And again, "Praise the Lord, all the nations, and praise Him, all the peoples."
12 And again Isaiah says, "There shall be a root of Jesse, and He who shall rise to reign over the nations, in Him shall the nations trust."
13 And may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.
14 And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brothers, that you also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
15 But, brothers, I wrote to you boldly, as reminding you in part, because of the grace that is given to me by God,
16 that I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the nations, ministering the gospel of God, so that the offering up of the nations might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
17 Therefore I have boasting in Christ Jesus as to the things pertaining to God.
18 For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ did not work out by me for the obedience of the nations in word and deed,
19 in power of miracles and wonders, in power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem, and all around to Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.