22因此,我一直受到拦阻,不能到你们那里。23但如今福音传遍了这一带,况且我几年来一直盼望去你们那里,24所以我想去西班牙的途中路过你们那里,稍作停留,享受与你们的相聚之乐,然后由你们资助我上路。25但现在我要去耶路撒冷服侍当地的圣徒,26因为马其顿和亚该亚的教会欣然捐出了财物给耶路撒冷的穷困圣徒。27这固然是他们慷慨解囊,但也可以说是他们该还的债。外族人既然分享了犹太圣徒属灵的福分,现在以物质报答他们也是应该的。28等我办完这件事,将捐款交付他们之后,我就会途经你们那里去西班牙。29我知道我去的时候,必会把基督丰盛的祝福带给你们。30弟兄姊妹,我借着我们主耶稣基督和圣灵所赐的爱心,恳求你们与我一同竭力祷告,为我祈求上帝,31使我脱离犹太地区不信之人的迫害,叫耶路撒冷的圣徒乐意接受我带去的捐款,32并使我按照上帝的旨意欢然去与你们相聚,一同重新得力。33愿赐平安的上帝常与你们同在。阿们!
English Standard Version
The Example of Christ
1We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.2Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.3For Christ did not please himself, but as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”4For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.5May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,6that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.7Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.
Christ the Hope of Jews and Gentiles
8For I tell you that Christ became a servant to the circumcised to show God’s truthfulness, in order to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs,9and in order that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, “Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name.”10And again it is said, “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people.”11And again, “Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and let all the peoples extol him.”12And again Isaiah says, “The root of Jesse will come, even he who arises to rule the Gentiles; in him will the Gentiles hope.”13May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
Paul the Minister to the Gentiles
14I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers,* that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another.15But on some points I have written to you very boldly by way of reminder, because of the grace given me by God16to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.17In Christ Jesus, then, I have reason to be proud of my work for God.18For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience—by word and deed,19by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God—so that from Jerusalem and all the way around to Illyricum I have fulfilled the ministry of the gospel of Christ;20and thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on someone else’s foundation,21but as it is written, “Those who have never been told of him will see, and those who have never heard will understand.”
Paul’s Plan to Visit Rome
22This is the reason why I have so often been hindered from coming to you.23But now, since I no longer have any room for work in these regions, and since I have longed for many years to come to you,24I hope to see you in passing as I go to Spain, and to be helped on my journey there by you, once I have enjoyed your company for a while.25At present, however, I am going to Jerusalem bringing aid to the saints.26For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make some contribution for the poor among the saints at Jerusalem.27For they were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have come to share in their spiritual blessings, they ought also to be of service to them in material blessings.28When therefore I have completed this and have delivered to them what has been collected,* I will leave for Spain by way of you.29I know that when I come to you I will come in the fullness of the blessing* of Christ.30I appeal to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf,31that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,32so that by God’s will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company.33May the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
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