10. and again it saith, `Rejoice ye nations, with His people;'
11. and again, `Praise the Lord, all ye nations; and laud Him, all ye peoples;'
12. and again, Isaiah saith, `There shall be the root of Jesse, and he who is rising to rule nations--upon him shall nations hope;'
13. and 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.
14. And 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;
15. and 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,
16. for 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.
17. I have, then, a boasting in Christ Jesus, in the things pertaining to God,
18. for 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,
19. in 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;
20. and so counting it honour to proclaim good news, not where Christ was named--that upon another's foundation I might not build--
21. but 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.'
22. Wherefore, also, I was hindered many times from coming unto you,