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The Letter to the Romans 15

15 Indeed, we spiritually mature believers in the Messiah must support our fellow believers in the Messiah who are spiritually immature. We must not only do what pleases us. 2 Each one of us believers in the Messiah must do what pleases his fellow believers in order to do what is good for them, and in order to help them become spiritually mature. 3 For instance, not even the Messiah Jesus pleased himself! Rather, he lived to please others. This is what David meant when he wrote in the Scriptures about the Messiah saying to God, “When people insult you, they also insult me!” 4 Indeed, the prophets previously wrote everything in the Scriptures in order to teach us. They also wrote the Scriptures in order to make us confident through what the Scriptures say that helps us endure and encourages us.

5 I pray that our patient and encouraging God will allow you to live harmoniously with each other the way the Messiah Jesus did. 6 I pray that you will live harmoniously with each other in order that you might be united when you glorify God. He is the Father of our Lord Jesus the Messiah.

7 Consequently, welcome your fellow believers in the Messiah in the same way that the Messiah Jesus also welcomed you in order to glorify God! 8 Indeed, I, Paul, am telling you that the Messiah Jesus serves the circumcised Jews because of how trustworthy God is. He did this in order to secure what God had promised to the Jewish forefathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 9 Jesus also did this in order for the nations to glorify God because he is so merciful. This is what David meant when he wrote in the Scriptures, “So I will proclaim who you are when I am among the nations, and I will praise you by singing songs.” 10 Again, Moses said in the Scriptures, “All you nations, celebrate along with God’s people!” 11 And also in the Scriptures someone said, “All you nations, praise the Lord! All you people groups, commend him!” 12 The Prophet Isaiah also said in the Scriptures, “The one who descends from David’s father Jesse will come. He will begin to rule over the nations. The nations will become confident because of him.”

13 I pray that the God who makes people confident will cause you to feel exceedingly joyful and peaceful by trusting in him! I pray that God will do this in order for you to be exceedingly confident by the Holy Spirit enabling you.

14 My fellow believers, God has also persuaded me personally that each of you are exceedingly good, exceedingly knowledgeable of many things, and even able to teach other people. 15 In this letter I have written to you believers in the Messiah in a bold manner about some things in order to remind you of them. I have done this because God has kindly authorized me to do so. 16 God did this in order for me to serve the Messiah Jesus among non-Jewish people by preaching the good news from God as if I were a priest. I do this in order for the non-Jewish people who trust in Jesus to be like something offered to God that pleases him, and that the Holy Spirit has set apart for him.

17 So, as someone who is united with the Messiah Jesus, I have good reasons to boast about what God is doing through me! 18 Indeed, I will only be so bold as to speak about what the Messiah has done through me that has led to the nations obediently trusting in God’s good news! The Messiah did this through what I said and did. 19 The Messiah also did this through powerful and wonderful miracles as God’s Holy Spirit powerfully enabled me! As a result, I have completed proclaiming the good news about the Messiah all the way around from Jerusalem to the province of Illyricum. 20 And so, I aspire to preach the good news where people have never heard about the Messiah Jesus. I desire this in order to not interfere with someone else’s work, as if I were building something where another person had already laid the foundation. 21 Rather, I preach the good news to those who have never heard it. This is what Isaiah meant when he wrote in the Scriptures, “Those people whom no one told about him will perceive who he is. Those people who have not heard about him will comprehend who he is.”

22 That also hindered me over and over again from visiting all of you at Rome. 23 Yet at the present time I have nowhere left to go in these areas to proclaim the good news. I also have deeply desired to visit you for many years. 24 So whenever I go to the province of Spain, I truly expect to visit you while passing through Rome. I also expect you to help me continue my journey to Spain after I first enjoy being with you for some time. 25 Yet, at the present time I am going to Jerusalem in order to serve God’s people there. 26 I am doing this because the believers in the provinces of Macedonia and Achaia were glad to give money to help the poor people of God who live in Jerusalem. 27 In fact, those believers were glad, and they should help the poor believers in Jerusalem. This is because the non-Jewish believers have spiritually benefited from the Jewish believers. So, the non-Jewish believers should also serve the Jewish believers by providing what they physically need. 28 So then, after I finish this task and safely deliver this money to the poor believers in Jerusalem, I will pass through your city on my way to Spain. 29 I am certain that the Messiah will fully bless us when I visit you!

30 Fellow believers, I appeal to you based on our Lord Jesus the Messiah and how the Holy Spirit has enabled us to love each other: Fervently pray to God with me and for me! 31 Pray that God will rescue me from the Jews in the province of Judea who do not believe in Jesus. Pray also that God’s people in Jerusalem will accept the money that I give them for the poor believers there. 32 Pray also that I can joyfully visit you as God wants, and we may refresh each other. 33 Finally, I pray that the God who makes us peaceful will be with all of you. May it be so!

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