Romans 15:14-21

14But I am persuaded, my brethren, I myself also, concerning you, that yourselves also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

15But I have written to you the more boldly, [brethren,] in part, as putting you in mind, because of the grace given to me by 1God,

16for me to be minister of Christ Jesus to the nations, carrying on as a sacrificial service the [message of] glad tidings of 2God, in order that the offering up of the nations might be acceptable, sanctified by [the] Holy Spirit.

17I have therefore [whereof to] boast in Christ Jesus in the things which pertain to 3God.

18For I will not dare to speak anything of the things which Christ has not wrought by me, for [the] obedience of [the] nations, by word and deed,

19in [the] power of signs and wonders, in [the] power of [the] Spirit of 4God; so that I, from Jerusalem, and in a circuit round to Illyricum, have fully preached the glad tidings of the Christ;

20and so aiming to announce the glad tidings, not where Christ has been named, that I might not build upon another's foundation;

21but according as it is written, To whom there was nothing told concerning him, they shall see; and they that have not heard shall understand.