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Romans 15:18-23

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18 Yet I dare not boast about anything except what Christ has done through me, bringing the Gentiles to God by my message and by the way I worked among them.
18 I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obey God by what I have said and done—
19 They were convinced by the power of miraculous signs and wonders and by the power of God’s Spirit. In this way, I have fully presented the Good News of Christ from Jerusalem all the way to Illyricum.
19 by the power of signs and wonders, through the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.
20 My ambition has always been to preach the Good News where the name of Christ has never been heard, rather than where a church has already been started by someone else.
20 It has always been my ambition to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation.
21 I have been following the plan spoken of in the Scriptures, where it says, “Those who have never been told about him will see, and those who have never heard of him will understand.”
21 Rather, as it is written: “Those who were not told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand.”
22 In fact, my visit to you has been delayed so long because I have been preaching in these places.
22 This is why I have often been hindered from coming to you.
23 But now I have finished my work in these regions, and after all these long years of waiting, I am eager to visit you.
23 But now that there is no more place for me to work in these regions, and since I have been longing for many years to visit you,
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