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Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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Now I myself am confident concerning you, my brethren, that you also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
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Nevertheless, brethren, I have written more boldly to you on some points, as reminding you, because of the grace given to me by God,
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that I might be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
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Therefore I have reason to glory in Christ Jesus in the things which pertain to God.
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For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not accomplished through me, in word and deed, to make the Gentiles obedient--
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in mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem and round about to Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.
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And so I have made it my aim to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build on another man's foundation,
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but as it is written: "To whom He was not announced, they shall see; And those who have not heard shall understand."
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For this reason I also have been much hindered from coming to you.
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But now no longer having a place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come to you,