Romans 15:14-21 - Paul's Ministry To The Gentiles
14 As far as I am concerned about you, my brothers, I am convinced that you especially are abounding in the highest goodness, richly supplied with perfect knowledge and competent to counsel one another. 15 And yet, to refresh your memories, I have written you rather freely on some details, because of the unmerited favor shown me by God 16 in making me a minister of Christ Jesus to the heathen peoples, to have me act as a sacrificing minister of the good news, in order that my offering of the heathen peoples to God may be acceptable, consecrated by the Holy Spirit. 17 So, as a Christian, I am proud of the things that I have done for God. 18 For I would venture to mention only what Christ has accomplished through me in bringing the heathen peoples to obedience, by word and by work, 19 by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Holy Spirit. So I have completed the telling of the good news of Christ all the way from Jerusalem around to Illyricum. 20 In this matter it has ever been my ambition to tell the good news where Christ's name had never been mentioned, so as not to build upon foundations laid by other men, 21 but, as the Scripture says: "They will see who were never told of Him, and they will understand who have not heard."