Romans 15 We then who are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ We then who are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. ² Let every one of us please his neighbour as far as is good for edification. ³ For even the Christ did not consult his own gratification, but as it is written, "The reproaches of them who reproached thee fell upon me." ⁴ For whatever was written heretofore, was written for our instruction, that we by patience and the consolation of the scripture may have hope. ⁵ Now may the God of this patience and of this consolation grant you to have your minds mutually bent on this very thing after the example of Christ Jesus, ⁶ that you may unanimously, with one voice, glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁷ Therefore receive one another into fellowship, even as the Christ received us into his family, for the glory of God. ⁸ Now I say that, for the truth of God, Jesus Christ became the minister of circumcision, to confirm the promises made to the fathers; ⁹ and that the Gentiles are to glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "For this cause I will praise thee among the nations and sing to thy name." ¹⁰ And again it is said, "Rejoice, O nations, with his people." ¹¹ And again, Praise the Lord, all ye nations: Praise him, all ye people, ¹² also, And again Esaias saith, "There shall be the root of Jesse, even he who riseth up to rule nations; in him nations will put their trust. ¹³ Now may the God of this trust fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in this trust by virtue of a holy spirit. ¹⁴ Now as for me, I am persuaded, my brethren, with respect to you, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another; ¹⁵ nevertheless I have written to you, brethren, with more boldness, partly as your remembrancer, because of the favour which God hath granted me, ¹⁶ that I should be a ministering servant of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, and employed in the holy service of dispensing the glad tidings of God, that the offering of the Gentiles may be accepted, being hallowed by a holy spirit. ¹⁷ Therefore I have matter of boasting in Christ Jesus with respect to the things pertaining to God. ¹⁸ For I will not presume to mention any thing, save what Christ hath wrought by me for the obedience of the Gentiles, both in profession and practice, ¹⁹ by virtue of signs and wonders, by the power of the spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem and the country around even to Illyricum, I have confirmed the glad tidings of the Christ, ²⁰ [yet when thus ambitious to publish the glad tidings] not where Christ was named, that I might not build on another's foundation; ²¹ but as it is written, "They to whom no publication was made concerning him, shall see, and they who have not heard, will attentively consider." ²² Therefore, though I have been many times hindered from coming to you, ²³ yet having now no further scope in these parts, and having had, for many years, a strong desire to visit you, ²⁴ I will, when I take a journey to Spain, come to you. For I hope to see you on my way, and to be forwarded thither by you, when I shall have first been in some degree satisfied with your company. ²⁵ But now I am going to Jerusalem as an almoner to the saints. ²⁶ For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make a contribution for the poor saints in Jerusalem. ²⁷ For they have been pleased! Indeed they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have partaken of their spiritual things, they ought to minister to them with temporal things. ²⁸ Having therefore performed this business, and secured to them this contribution, I will come to you in my way to Spain. ²⁹ And I know that when I come to you, I shall come with a fulness of the blessing of the glad tidings of the Christ. ³⁰ Now I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the spirit, to join with me in earnest supplications to God, for me; ³¹ that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea; and that this service of mine, which carrieth me to Jerusalem, may be acceptable to the saints, ³² that I may come to you with joy, by the will of God, and refresh myself with you. ³³ Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.