015:014 But as to you, brethren, I am convinced--yes, I Paul am convinced-- that, even apart from my teaching, you are already full of goodness of heart, and enriched with complete Christian knowledge, and are also competent to instruct one another. 015:015 But I write to you the more boldly--partly as reminding you of what you already know--because of the authority graciously entrusted to me by God, 015:016 that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus among the Gentiles, doing priestly duties in connexion with God's Good News so that the sacrifice--namely the Gentiles--may be acceptable to Him, being (as it is) an offering which the Holy Spirit has made holy. 015:017 I can therefore glory in Christ Jesus concerning the work for God in which I am engaged. 015:018 For I will not presume to mention any of the results that Christ has brought about by other agency than mine in securing the obedience of the Gentiles by word or deed, 015:019 with power manifested in signs and marvels, and through the power of the Holy Spirit. But--to speak simply of my own labours-- beginning in Jerusalem and the outlying districts, I have proclaimed without reserve, even as far as Illyricum, the Good News of the Christ; 015:020 making it my ambition, however, not to tell the Good News where Christ's name was already known, for fear I should be building on another man's foundation. 015:021 But, as Scripture says, "Those shall see, to whom no report about Him has hitherto come, and those who until now have not heard shall understand." 015:022 And it is really this which has again and again prevented my coming to you. 015:023 But now, as there is no more unoccupied ground in this part of the world, and I have for years past been eager to pay you a visit, 015:024 I hope, as soon as ever I extend my travels into Spain, to see you on my way and be helped forward by you on my journey, when I have first enjoyed being with you for a time. 015:025 But at present I am going to Jerusalem to serve God's people, 015:026 for Macedonia and Greece have kindly contributed a certain sum in relief of the poor among God's people, in Jerusalem. 015:027 Yes, they have kindly done this, and, in fact, it was a debt they owed them. For seeing that the Gentiles have been admitted in to partnership with the Jews in their spiritual blessings, they in turn are under an obligation to render sacred service to the Jews in temporal things. 015:028 So after discharging this duty, and making sure that these kind gifts reach those for whom they are intended, I shall start for Spain, passing through Rome on my way there; 015:029 and I know that when I come to you it will be with a vast amount of blessing from Christ.