15. But I have written to you, brethren, more boldly in some sort, as it were putting you in mind: because of the grace which is given me from God.
16. That I should be the minister of Christ Jesus among the Gentiles; sanctifying the gospel of God, that the oblation of the Gentiles may be made acceptable and sanctified in the Holy Ghost.
17. I have therefore glory in Christ Jesus towards God.
18. For I dare not to speak of any of those things which Christ worketh not by me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,
19. By the virtue of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Ghost, so that from Jerusalem round about as far as unto Illyricum, I have replenished the gospel of Christ.
20. And I have so preached this gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation.
21. But as it is written: They to whom he was not spoken of, shall see, and they that have not heard shall understand.
22. For which cause also I was hindered very much from coming to you, and have been kept away till now.