May
the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with
one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together you may with one voice
glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore welcome one another
as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.
We
who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and
not to please ourselves. Let each of us please his neighbour for his good, to
build him up. For Christ did not please himself, but as it is written, “The
reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.” For whatever was written in
former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through
the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
In Christ Jesus, then, I have reason to be proud of my work for God. For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience—by word and deed, by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God—so that from Jerusalem and all the way around to Illyricum I have fulfilled the ministry of the gospel of Christ; and thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on someone else's foundation, but as it is written,
“Those who have never been told of him will see,
and those who have never heard will understand.”
“Those who have never been told of him will see,
and those who have never heard will understand.”
Romans
15-16
We end
our journey to the book to the Romans today encouraged to build one another up.
Remembering that our Lord died for us and by the Father’s grace we have
received the gift of our Lord to reconcile to Himself.
The rest of the book is personal greetings
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