Romans 15:14-21 - Paul's Ministry To The Gentiles

¹⁴ And I myself also am confident regarding you, my brothers, that you yourselves are already full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and well able to give advice to one another. ¹⁵ Still I have written unto you the more boldly, in part, by way of reminding you, because of that gift of grace which God bestowed upon me, in making me a priest of Jesus Christ unto the Gentiles. ¹⁶ I act as priest of the gospel of God; so that the Gentiles, when offered before him, may be an acceptable sacrifice, because consecrated by the Holy Spirit. ¹⁷ I have then my boast in Christ Jesus concerning the things of God. ¹⁸ For I will not dare to speak of any thing except that which Christ has done through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience by word and deed, ¹⁹ through the might of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit. So that beginning at Jerusalem and its environs, I have proclaimed without reserve the gospel of Christ, even as far as Illyricum. ²⁰ My ambition has been, however, to preach the gospel where Christ's name was not already known, so that I might not build upon another man's foundation. ²¹ But, as Scripture says, He shall be seen by those to whom no news about him ever came, And those who have never heard of him shall understand.