Romans (Rom) 15
15
1So we who are strong have a duty to bear the weaknesses of those who are not strong, rather than please ourselves. 2Each of us should please his neighbor and act for his good, thus building him up. 3For even the Messiah did not please himself; rather, as the Tanakh says, ‘The insults of those insulting you fell on me.’ 4For everything written in the past was written to teach us, so that with the encouragement of the Tanakh we might patiently hold on to our hope. 5And may God, the source of encouragement and patience, give you the same attitude among yourselves as the Messiah Yeshua had, 6so that with one accord and with one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.
7So welcome each other, just as the Messiah has welcomed you into God’s glory. 8For I say that the Messiah became a servant of the Jewish people in order to show God’s truthfulness by making good his promises to the Patriarchs, 9and in order to show his mercy by causing the Gentiles to glorify God — as it is written in the Tanakh,
“Because of this I will acknowledge you among the Gentiles
and sing praise to your name.”
10And again it says,
“Gentiles, rejoice with his people.”
11And again,
“Praise Adonai, all Gentiles!
Let all peoples praise him!”
12And again, Yesha‘yahu says,
“The root of Yishai will come,
he who arises to rule Gentiles;
Gentiles will put their hope in him.”
13May God, the source of hope, fill you completely with joy and shalom as you continue trusting, so that by the power of the Ruach HaKodesh you may overflow with hope.
14Now I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you are full of goodness, filled with knowledge and well able to counsel each other. 15But on some points I have written you quite boldly by way of reminding you about them, because of the grace God has given me 16to be a servant of the Messiah Yeshua for the Gentiles, with the priestly duty of presenting the Good News of God, so that the Gentiles may be an acceptable offering, made holy by the Ruach HaKodesh.
17In union with the Messiah Yeshua, then, I have reason to be proud of my service to God; 18for I will not dare speak of anything except what the Messiah has accomplished through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience by my words and deeds, 19through the power of signs and miracles, through the power of the Spirit of God. So from Yerushalayim all the way to Illyricum I have fully proclaimed the Good News of the Messiah. 20I have always made it my ambition to proclaim the Good News where the Messiah was not yet known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation, 21but rather, as the Tanakh puts it,
“Those who have not been told about him will see,
and those who have not heard will understand.”
22This is also why I have so often been prevented from visiting you. 23But now, since there is no longer a place in these regions that needs me, and since I have wanted for many years to come to you, 24I hope to see you as I pass through on my way to Spain, and to have you help me travel there after I have enjoyed your company awhile.
25But now I am going to Yerushalayim with aid for God’s people there. 26For Macedonia and Achaia thought it would be good to make some contribution to the poor among God’s people in Yerushalayim. 27They were pleased to do it, but the fact is that they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have shared with the Jews in spiritual matters, then the Gentiles clearly have a duty to help the Jews in material matters. 28So when I have finished this task and made certain that they have received this fruit, I will leave for Spain and visit you on my way there; 29and I know that when I come to you, it will be with the full measure of the Messiah’s blessings. 30And now I urge you, brothers, by our Lord Yeshua the Messiah and by the love of the Spirit, to join me in my struggle by praying to God on my behalf 31that I will be rescued from the unbelievers in Y’hudah, and that my service for Yerushalayim will be acceptable to God’s people there. 32Then, if it is God’s will, I will come to you with joy and have a time of rest among you. 33Now may the God of shalom be with you all. Amen.
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1And we ought — we who are strong — to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves;
2for let each one of us please the neighbour for good, unto edification,
3for even the Christ did not please himself, but, according as it hath been written, ‘The reproaches of those reproaching Thee fell upon me;’
4for, as many things as were written before, for our instruction were written before, that through the endurance, and the exhortation of the Writings, we might have the hope.
5And may the God of the endurance, and of the exhortation, give to you to have the same mind toward one another, according to Christ Jesus;
6that with one accord — with one mouth — ye may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ;
7wherefore receive ye one another, according as also the Christ did receive us, to the glory of God.
8And I say Jesus Christ to have become a ministrant of circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises to the fathers,
9and the nations for kindness to glorify God, according as it hath been written, ‘Because of this I will confess to Thee among nations, and to Thy name I will sing praise,’
10and again it saith, ‘Rejoice ye nations, with His people;’
11and again, ‘Praise the Lord, all ye nations; and laud Him, all ye peoples;’
12and again, Isaiah saith, ‘There shall be the root of Jesse, and he who is rising to rule nations — upon him shall nations hope;’
13and the God of the hope shall fill you with all joy and peace in the believing, for your abounding in the hope in power of the Holy Spirit.
14And I am persuaded, my brethren — I myself also — concerning you, that ye yourselves also are full of goodness, having been filled with all knowledge, able also one another to admonish;
15and the more boldly I did write to you, brethren, in part, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me by God,
16for my being a servant of Jesus Christ to the nations, acting as priest in the good news of God, that the offering up of the nations may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
17I have, then, a boasting in Christ Jesus, in the things pertaining to God,
18for I will not dare to speak anything of the things that Christ did not work through me, to obedience of nations, by word and deed,
19in power of signs and wonders, in power of the Spirit of God; so that I, from Jerusalem, and in a circle as far as Illyricum, have fully preached the good news of the Christ;
20and so counting it honour to proclaim good news, not where Christ was named — that upon another's foundation I might not build —
21but according as it hath been written, ‘To whom it was not told concerning him, they shall see; and they who have not heard, shall understand.’
22Wherefore, also, I was hindered many times from coming unto you,
23and now, no longer having place in these parts, and having a longing to come unto you for many years,
24when I may go on to Spain I will come unto you, for I hope in going through, to see you, and by you to be set forward thither, if of you first, in part, I shall be filled.
25And, now, I go on to Jerusalem, ministering to the saints;
26for it pleased Macedonia and Achaia well to make a certain contribution for the poor of the saints who [are] in Jerusalem;
27for it pleased well, and their debtors they are, for if in their spiritual things the nations did participate, they ought also, in the fleshly things, to minister to them.
28This, then, having finished, and having sealed to them this fruit, I will return through you, to Spain;
29and I have known that coming unto you — in the fulness of the blessing of the good news of Christ I shall come.
30And I call upon you, brethren, through our Lord Jesus Christ, and through the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in the prayers for me unto God,
31that I may be delivered from those not believing in Judea, and that my ministration, that [is] for Jerusalem, may become acceptable to the saints;
32that in joy I may come unto you, through the will of God, and may be refreshed with you,
33and the God of the peace [be] with you all. Amen.
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