A Ministry from Jerusalem to Illyricum

Welcome, Hope, Mission, and Shared Prayer · Romans 15

Story guide: Disclosed visual essay. Paul trusts the believers’ goodness and reminds them boldly. Messiah works through word and deed as the gospel reaches from Jerusalem to Illyricum, while Paul seeks new ground rather than another’s foundation.

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14And I myself am convinced about you, my brothers, that you yourselves also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able also to instruct one another.

15But I have written to you rather boldly in part, as reminding you again, because of the grace given to me by God,

16to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest in the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

17Therefore I have reason for boasting in Christ Jesus in the things pertaining to God.

18For I will not dare to speak of anything except what Messiah has accomplished through me for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

19by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit, so that from Jerusalem and all around as far as Illyricum I have fully proclaimed the gospel of the Messiah,

20And in this way I make it my ambition to proclaim the good news, not where Messiah has already been named, so that I might not build on another's foundation.

21but as it is written: Those who were not told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand.

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