14. But I am persuaded, my brethren, I myself also, concerning you, that yourselves also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
15. But I have written to you the more boldly, brethren, in part, as putting you in mind, because of the grace given to me by God,
16. for me to be minister of Christ Jesus to the nations, carrying on as a sacrificial service the message of glad tidings of God, in order that the offering up of the nations might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
17. I have therefore whereof to boast in Christ Jesus in the things which pertain to God.
18. For I will not dare to speak anything of the things which Christ has not wrought by me, for the obedience of the nations, by word and deed,
19. in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God; so that I, from Jerusalem, and in a circuit round to Illyricum, have fully preached the glad tidings of the Christ;
20. and so aiming to announce the glad tidings, not where Christ has been named, that I might not build upon another's foundation;