Accept One Another

1Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the powerless and not to please ourselves. 2Let each of us please the neighbor unto good, for building up. 3For even Christ did not please Himself, but as it has been written: “The reproaches of those reproaching You fell on Me.”† 4For as much as† was written before was all written for our instruction, so that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have the hope.

5Now may the God of endurance and encouragement grant you⁺ to be of the same mind with one another, according to Christ Jesus, 6so that with one accord, with one mouth, you⁺ may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Christ the Servant of Jews and Gentiles

7Therefore receive one another as Christ also received you⁺,† to the glory of God. 8For† I say that Christ† has become a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, in order to confirm the promises to the fathers, 9and for the Gentiles to glorify God for mercy, as it has been written:

“Because of this I will praise You among the Gentiles,†

and I will sing praises to Your name.Ӡ

10And again it says:

“Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people.”†

11And again:

“Praise the Lord, all the Gentiles,

and extol Him, all the peoples.Ӡ

12And again, Isaiah says:

“There will be the root of Jesse,

and the One arising to rule over the Gentiles;

in Him the Gentiles will hope.Ӡ

13And may the God of hope fill you⁺ with all joy and peace in believing, for you⁺ to abound in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Paul the Minister to the Gentiles

14And I myself also am persuaded concerning you⁺, my brothers, that you yourselves are also full of goodness, being filled with all knowledge, and being able to admonish one another.† 15But I wrote to you⁺† more boldly in part, as reminding you⁺, because of the grace having been given to me by God 16for me to be a minister of Christ Jesus† to the Gentiles, serving as a priest in the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles might become acceptable, having been sanctified in the Holy Spirit.

17Therefore I have ground for boasting in Christ Jesus in the things pertaining to God. 18For I will not dare to speak of anything that Christ did not work through me for the obedience of the Gentiles by word and deed, 19in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God,† so as for me, from Jerusalem and around as far as Illyricum, to have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ, 20and thus striving earnestly to preach the gospel where Christ was not named, so that I might not build upon another’s foundation. 21But as it has been written:

“They will see, to whom it was not announced concerning Him;

and those who have not heard will understand.Ӡ

22Therefore also I was being himdered many times from coming to you⁺.

Paul’s Travel Plans
(1 Corinthians 16:5–9)

23But now, no longer having a place in these regions, and having a great desire for many years to come to you⁺, 24as I may go to Spain, I hope,† for going through, to see you⁺ and to be sent forth there by you⁺, if first I should be filled up of you⁺ in part.

25But now I am going to Jerusalem, serving the saints. 26For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make some contribution for the poor of the saints who are in Jerusalem. 27For they were pleased, and they are debtors of them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual things, they ought also to minister to them in the fleshly things.

28Therefore, having completed this, and having sealed this fruit to them, I will depart through you⁺ to Spain. 29And I know that coming to you⁺ I will come in the fullness of the blessing† of Christ.

30Now I exhort you⁺, brothers, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in the prayers for me to God, 31so that I may be delivered from the unbelieving ones in Judea, and that my service in Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints, 32so that having come to you⁺ in joy, through the will of God I may be refreshed together with you⁺.

33Now the God of peace be with all of you⁺. Amen.†

Footnotes:

3 Psalm 69:9
4 BYZ and TR For what
7 ALT, F35, TR, and WH us
8 BYZ and TR And
8 BYZ Christ Jesus; TR Jesus Christ
9 GOC and F35 include O Lord.
9 2 Samuel 22:50; Psalm 18:49
10 Deuteronomy 32:43
11 Psalm 117:1
12 Isaiah 11:10 (see also LXX)
14 BYZ to admonish others
15 BYZ and TR include brothers.
16 BYZ and TR of Jesus Christ
19 SBL the power of the Spirit; NE and WH the power of the Holy Spirit
21 Isaiah 52:15 (see also LXX)
24 BYZ and TR include to come.
29 TR and BYZ include of the gospel.
33 Some manuscripts do not include Amen. One early manuscript places the text of Romans 16:25–27 here.