Romans 15:8-19

Rotherham(i) 8 For I affirm Christ to have become a minister of circumcision in behalf of the truth of God,––to confirm the promises of the fathers, 9 And that, the nations, for mercy should glorify God:––even as it is written––For this cause, will I openly confess unto thee among nations, and, unto thy name, will strike the strings; 10 And again he saith––Be glad ye nations with his people; 11 And again,––Be giving praise all ye nations unto the Lord, and let all the peoples repeat his praise; 12 And, again, Isaiah, saith––There shall be the root of Jesse, and he that ariseth to rule nations,––upon, him, shall nations hope.
13 Now, the God of the hope, fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that ye may surpass in the hope, in the power of Holy Spirit.
14 But I am persuaded my brethren,––even, I myself, concerning you: that, ye yourselves, also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also, unto one another, to be ministering admonition: 15 Howbeit, the more boldly, have I written unto you,––in some measure, as bringing it back to your minds,––by reason of the favour given unto me from God,–– 16 That I should be a public minister of Christ Jesus unto the nations, doing priestly service with the glad–message of God, in order that the offering up of the nations might prove to be acceptable, being hallowed in Holy Spirit:
17 I have, therefore, [my] boasting in Christ Jesus in the things pertaining to God,–– 18 For I wilt not dare to speak anything save of the things which Christ hath wrought out for himself through me for the obedience of nations,––by word and deed, 19 By the power of signs and wonders, by the power of [Holy Spirit]; so that I, from Jerusalem and in a circuit as far as Illyricum, have fulfilled the glad–message of the Christ,––