18. In fact, all I will talk about is how Christ let me speak and work, so that the Gentiles would obey him.
19. Indeed, I will tell how Christ performed miracles and wonders by the power of the Holy Spirit. I have preached the good news about him all the way from Jerusalem to Illyricum.
20. But I have always tried to preach where people have never heard about Christ. I am like a builder who doesn't build on anyone else's foundation.
21. It is just as the Scriptures say,“All who haven't been toldabout himwill see him,and those who haven't heardabout himwill understand.”
22. My work has always kept me from coming to see you.
23. Now there is nothing left for me to do in this part of the world, and for years I have wanted to visit you.
24. So I plan to stop off on my way to Spain. Then after a short, but refreshing, stay with you, I hope you will quickly send me on.
25-26. I am now on my way to Jerusalem to deliver the money that the Lord's followers in Macedonia and Achaia collected for God's needy people.
27. This is something they really wanted to do. But sharing their money with the Jews was also like paying back a debt, because the Jews had already shared their spiritual blessings with the Gentiles.