Twentieth_Century(i)
9 And that the Gentiles also may praise God for his mercy. As Scripture says--'Therefore will I make acknowledgment to thee among the Gentiles and sing in honor of thy Name.'
10 And again it says--'Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with God's People.'
11 And yet again--'Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles, and let all Peoples sing his praises.'
12 Again, Isaiah says--'There shall be a Scion of the house of Jesse, One who is to arise to rule the Gentiles; on him shall the Gentiles rest their hopes.'
13 May God, who inspires our hope, grant you perfect happiness and peace in your faith, till you are filled with this hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
14 I am persuaded, my Brothers--yes, I Paul, with regard to you- that you are yourselves full of kindness, furnished with all Christian learning, and well able to give advice to one another.
15 But in parts of this letter I have expressed myself somewhat boldly--by way of refreshing your memories--
16 Because of the charge with which God has entrusted me, that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus to go to the Gentiles--that I should act as a priest of God's Good News, so that the offering up of the Gentiles may be an acceptable sacrifice, consecrated by the Holy Spirit.
17 It is, then, through my union with Christ Jesus that I have a proud confidence in my work for God.
18 For I will not dare to speak of anything but what Christ has done through me to win the obedience of the Gentiles--
19 By my words and actions, through the power displayed in signs and marvels, and through the power of the Holy Spirit. And so, starting from Jerusalem and its neighborhood, and going as far as Illyria, I have told in full the Good News of the Christ;