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1. Whereas we are responsible as we are strong
[in faith,] to alleviate the sicknesses of the weak* and that we should not flatter
ourselves.
2. Except our people should confer blessings on our new kinsmen, so as to build them
up.
3. Because even Christ was not just praising himself. Except as it is revealed in
Scriptures,
"The blame of your blamers, has fallen upon me."
4. For everything that was recorded in Scriptures from the very beginning, was recorded
for our edification, so that through the preaching of the hope [of the Kingdom] and
the love of Scriptures, we may have hope.
5. Then the God of hope and love, shall make you worthy to regard one another, through
Jesus Christ.
6. That you may with one opinion and one expression glorify God the Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ.
7. Because of this be in communion and tolerate each other, whereas Christ also brought
you in communion with the glory of God.
8. Then I say that Jesus Christ ministered to the circumcised on behalf of God's
sincerity, whereas he confirmed the reign of the ancestors.
9. And the nations of the world glorified God for the sake of the grace that was
shed on them. As is written in Scriptures,
"I will declare you to the nations
...and sing your name."
10. And again [Scripture] says,
The nations rejoiced with his people."
11. And again [Scripture] says,
"Glorify God, all you nations,
He has blessed all motherlands."
12. And again Isaiah said,
"He becomes the root of Jesse,*
and when He rises, he becomes the head of all nations,
and in him shall the nations find hope."
13. God then fills you with hope, complete
joy and peace through faith, that you may grow in His hope, through the power of
the holy Spirit.
14. I commend you therefore, brethren,* that you also be filled with goodness, and
that you adhere to all knowledge, and that you edify others.
15. I have a little more to tell you then earnestly, brethren, whereas I present
you with the grace that has been vouchsafed me from God,
16. That I may become a servant of Jesus Christ among the nations and work for the
Revelation of the Gospel of God, that the Offering of the nations be acceptable and
presented through the holy Spirit.
17. I thus take a pride through Jesus Christ in God.
18. For I do not dare say anything that Christ did not ordain through my hands for
the benefit* of the nations through Manifestation and works,
19. Through the power of miracles and wonders, and by the power of the Spirit of
God. Whereas from Jerusalem I went around all the way to Illyricum and spread the
hope of Christ.
20. As I endeavored to proffer the hope [of the Kingdom,] I never failed to call
on the name of Christ, so as not to build on a foreign foundation.
21. Except whereas it is written in Scriptures,
"Those who were not told about him, shall
see him,
And those who did not hear, shall become adherents."
22. Because of this so many seasons have elapsed
before I could come to you.
23. Now that I have no place left in these countries and having desired this for
many years, I will be coming to you.
24. When I go to Spain preaching [the Kingdom,] I shall come to see you, and you
will send me along to there, when I have been with you a while, it will be a great
pleasure seeing you.
25. Now I go to Jerusalem to render service to the saints.
26. For those [Christians] who are in Macedonia and Achaia wish to share their blessings*
with those poor saints in Jerusalem.
27. They wished so because they are also responsible to do so for them. For if the
nations partook with them through the Spirit, they are responsible to serve them
also through the flesh.
28. Therefore, when I thus have fulfilled and completed this task, I shall pass by
you on my way to Spain.
29. For I know when I come to you, it shall be wholeheartedly through the blessings
of the Gospel's Revelation through Jesus Christ that I come.
30. Then I beg you, my brethren, in our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of
the Spirit, that you strive with me through prayer to God on my behalf.
31. That I may be delivered from those who do not adhere in Judea, and that the service
which I render to the saints in Jerusalem may be perceived well,
32. And that I may come to you joyfully by the will of God and rest among you.
33. The God of Peace then be with all of you, amen.
*15:1 Lit. Ar. id. construction: (implied) "...who
do not keep the Old Covenant with respect to diet."
*15:12 Lit. Ar. id. poetic expression retained: "Brings the line of Jesse back
to life."
*15:14 Lit. Ar. id. figure of speech: "My brothers."
*15:18 Lit. Ar. id. figure of speech: "Hearing."
*15:26 Lit. Ar. id. expression: "Have communion with."
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