\subsection{Romans 15}
\VS{1} So we, the able, ought to be bearing the weaknesses of the unable, and not 
to be pleasing ourselves. 
\VS{2} Let\fnImperative{} each of us be 
pleasing his neighbor for the good towards building [him] up. 
\VS{3} For even the 
Christ did not please himself, but just as it is written:

\begin{verse}
The reproaches of those reproaching you fell upon me.
\end{verse}

\VS{4} For as much as [this] was written beforehand, it was written for our 
instruction, in order that through endurance and through the exhortation of 
the scriptures we may have hope 
\VS{5} May the God of endurance and of the 
exhortation give to you to be like-minded with one another according to 
[the] Christ Jesus, 
\VS{6} in order that with one mind [and] with one mouth you 
glorify the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ. 
\VS{7} Therefore 
receive one another, just as the Christ also received us into [the] glory of God. 
\VS{8} For I say that [the] Christ became [a] servant of circumcision in behalf of 
the truth of God, to confirm the promise [made] to the fathers, 
\VS{9} and that 
the nations [may] glorify God for [his] mercy, just as it is written:

\begin{verse}
For this reason I will confess to you among the nations \\
And to your name will I sing praise.
\end{verse}

\VS{10} And again he says:

\begin{verse}
Rejoice, O nations, with his people
\end{verse}

\VS{11} And again:

\begin{verse}
Be praising the Lord, all [you] nations \\
And let\fnImperative{} all the peoples praise him.
\end{verse}

\VS{12} And again Isaiah says:

\begin{verse}
There will be the root of Jesse \\
And the [one] rising to be ruling [the] nations, \\
Upon him will the nations hope.
\end{verse}

\VS{13} Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, 
that you may abound in the hope in [the] power of [the] Holy Spirit. 
\VS{14} Indeed I 
myself am persuaded concerning you, my brothers, that you yourselves are 
full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to be admonishing one 
another. 
\VS{15} But I wrote to you more boldly on some points, as reminding 
you, because of the grace given to me from God, 
\VS{16} that I be [a] minister 
of Christ Jesus to the nations, ministering the good-news of God, in order 
that the offering of the nations become acceptable, made holy by the Holy 
Spirit. 
\VS{17} I have therefore [a] boast in Christ Jesus with respect to the 
[things] towards God. 
\VS{18} For I will not dare to be speaking of what Christ has 
not worked through me, to make the nations obedient, in word and work, 
\VS{19} in [the] power of signs and wonders, in [the] power of [the] spirit, so that from 
Jerusalem and round until Illyrika I have made full the good-news of Christ. 
\VS{20} Thus I strive to be good-newsing not where Christ has been named, in 
order that I not build upon another's foundation, 
\VS{21} but just as it is 
written:

\begin{verse}
To whom has not been reported concerning him, \\
They will see, \\
And those who have not heard will understand.
\end{verse}

\VS{22} For which cause I also have been often hindered from coming to you, 
\VS{23} but now no longer having place in these districts, but having 
longing to come to you for many years, 
\VS{24} when I go to Spain, [I will come to you]. For I 
hope, going through, to see you and to be helped on my way by you there, if 
first I be filled in part by your [company], 
\VS{25} but now I go to Jerusalem serving the holy [ones]. 
\VS{26} For [those of] Macedonia and Achaia have considered it good 
to make some contribution\footnote{from FELLOWSHIP} for the poor of the holy 
[ones] in Jerusalem. 
\VS{27} For they considered it good, and they are their 
debtors. For if the nations have been made partners in their spiritual 
[things], they ought also in the fleshly [things] to be ministering to them. 
\VS{28} 
Therefore having completed this, and having sealed to them this fruit, I 
will come through you to Spain. 
\VS{29} And I know that coming to you in 
[the] fullness of blessing Christ will I come. 
\VS{30} I call upon you, brothers, 
through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the agape-love of the spirit, to 
struggle with me in prayers in my behalf to God, 
\VS{31} in order that I be 
delivered from the disobedient [ones] in Judea and my service in Jerusalem become 
acceptable to the holy [ones], 
\VS{32} in order that, coming to you in joy through 
the wish of God, I find rest with you. 
\VS{33} So the God of peace 
[be]\footnote{or ``[is]''} with you all, Amen.
