Romans 15:15-21

Moffatt(i) 15 Still, by way of refreshing your memory, I have written you with a certain freedom, in virtue of my divine commission 16 as a priest of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the service of God's gospel. My aim is to make the Gentiles an acceptable offering, consecrated by the holy Spirit. 17 Now in Christ Jesus I can be proud of my work for God. 18 I will not make free to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished by me in the way of securing the obedience of the Gentiles, by my words and by my deeds, 19 by the force of miracles and marvels, by the power of the Spirit of God. Thus from Jerusalem right round to Illyricum, I have been able to complete the preaching of the gospel of Christ — 20 my ambition always being to preach it only in places where there had been no mention of Christ's name, that I might not build on foundations laid by others, 21 but that (as it is written) They should see who never had learned about him, and they who had never heard of him should understand.