Accept One Another 1 UDB We believers who know that God allows us to do many things should be patient with those believers who think that God does not allow us to do these things. We should be patient with them and allow them to inconvenience us. This is more important than our pleasing ourselves. BSB BSB: We who are strong ought to bear with the shortcomings of the weak and not to please ourselves.
2 UDB Each of us should do the things that please our fellow believers—to help them and encourage them. BSB BSB: Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.
3 UDB We should please our fellow believers since Christ has set us an example. He did not do things to please himself. On the contrary, he tried to please God even when others insulted him. That was as the scriptures say: "When people insulted you, it was as though they were also insulting me." BSB BSB: For even Christ did not please Himself, but as it is written: “The insults of those who insult You have fallen on Me.”
4 UDB Remember that all the things written in the scriptures are there to teach us, so that we may become patient in hardship. In this way the scriptures will encourage us to expect that God will do for us everything that he has promised. BSB BSB: For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.
5 UDB I pray that God may give you patience and encouragement so that you all live in peace with each other, doing as Christ Jesus did. BSB BSB: Now may the God who gives endurance and encouragement grant you harmony with one another in Christ Jesus,
6 UDB If you do this, you all will be praising God together, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. BSB BSB: so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Christ the Servant of Jews and Gentiles 7 UDB So I say to all of you believers in Rome, accept each other. If you do that, people will praise God as they see you behave like Christ. Accept each other just like Christ accepted you. BSB BSB: Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring glory to God.
8 UDB I want you to remember that Christ helped us Jews to know the truth about God. When Christ came, he confirmed the truth of all the promises that God made to our ancestors long ago. BSB BSB: For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth, to confirm the promises made to the patriarchs,
9 UDB But he also came to help the Gentiles, so they would praise God for his mercy. God's mercy has produced what is written in the scriptures that David said to God: "So I will praise you among the Gentiles; I will sing and praise you." BSB BSB: so that the Gentiles may glorify God for His mercy. As it is written: “Therefore I will praise You among the Gentiles; I will sing hymns to Your name.”
10 UDB Moses also wrote, "You Gentiles, rejoice with us who are God's people." BSB BSB: Again, it says: “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people.”
11 UDB And David wrote in the scriptures, "Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles; may everyone praise him." BSB BSB: And again: “Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and extol Him, all you peoples.”
12 UDB And Isaiah wrote in the scriptures, "There will be a descendant of King David who will rule over the Gentiles. They will confidently expect him to fulfill what he has promised." BSB BSB: And once more, Isaiah says: “The Root of Jesse will appear, One who will arise to rule over the Gentiles; in Him the Gentiles will put their hope.”
13 UDB I pray that God makes you confident as you look to the future and that you expect him to do everything he promised he would do. I pray that he will cause you to be completely joyful and peaceful as you trust in him. The Holy Spirit will enable you to expect that you will receive even more than God has promised you. BSB BSB: Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Paul the Minister to the Gentiles 14 UDB My fellow believers, I myself am completely sure that you yourselves have acted toward others in a completely good way. You have done that because you have known completely all that God wants you to know and because you are able to teach each other. BSB BSB: I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, brimming with knowledge, and able to instruct one another.
15 UDB However, I have written to you quite openly in this letter about some things in order to remind you about them. I have written this because God has made me an apostle, although I did not deserve this. BSB BSB: However, I have written you a bold reminder on some points, because of the grace God has given me
16 UDB He did this in order that I should work for Jesus Christ among the Gentiles. God has appointed me to act like a priest as I proclaim his good news, so that he may accept the Gentiles who believe in Christ. They will be like an offering that the Holy Spirit has set completely apart for God only. BSB BSB: to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
17 UDB It follows that because of my relationship with Christ Jesus I am happy about my work for God. BSB BSB: Therefore I exult in Christ Jesus in my service to God.
18 UDB I will speak boldly only about the work that Christ has accomplished through me, that Gentiles might obey God in their words and in their actions. BSB BSB: I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obedience by word and deed,
19 UDB Christ worked through me by showing signs and other miracles that were done in the power of the Spirit of God, so that in every place I have traveled, from Jerusalem all the way to the province of Illyricum, I have completed my work of proclaiming the message about Christ. BSB BSB: by the power of signs and wonders, and by the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.
20 UDB As I proclaim that message, I am always eagerly trying to proclaim it in places where people have not already heard about Christ. I do that so I might not be simply continuing the work that someone else already started. I do not want to be like a man who builds a house on someone else's foundation. BSB BSB: In this way I have aspired to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation.
21 UDB On the contrary, I teach Gentiles, so that what happens may be like what was written: "The people who have never heard any news about the Christ, they will see him. Those who have never heard of him will understand about him." BSB BSB: Rather, as it is written: “Those who were not told about Him will see, and those who have not heard will understand.”
22 UDB Because I have attempted to preach the message about Christ in places where they have not heard about him, I have been stopped many times from coming to visit you. BSB BSB: That is why I have often been hindered from coming to you.
Paul’s Travel Plans (1 Corinthians 16:5–9)
23 UDB But now there are no more places in these regions where people have not heard about Christ. Furthermore, for several years I have wanted to visit you. BSB BSB: But now that there are no further opportunities for me in these regions, and since I have longed for many years to visit you,
24 UDB So I hope to go to Spain, and I hope that you will help me on my journey. And I would like to pause on my journey for a while in order to enjoy being with you. BSB BSB: I hope to see you on my way to Spain. And after I have enjoyed your company for a while, you can equip me for my journey.
25 UDB But I cannot visit you now because I am about to go to Jerusalem to take money to God's people there. BSB BSB: Now, however, I am on my way to Jerusalem to serve the saints there.
26 UDB The believers in the provinces of Macedonia and Achaia decided to contribute money to help the believers in Jerusalem, God's own people, who are poor. BSB BSB: For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.
27 UDB They themselves decided to give this gift to you. For if the Gentiles have been able to share in the spiritual blessings that had been given to the Jews, they owe it to the Jews to share with them their material blessings. BSB BSB: They were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual blessings, they are obligated to minister to them with material blessings.
28 UDB When I finish this task of delivering all this money that the believers in Macedonia and Achaia have given, I will leave Jerusalem and visit you in Rome while I am on my way to Spain. BSB BSB: So after I have completed this service and have safely delivered this bounty to them, I will set off to Spain by way of you.
29 UDB And I know that when I visit you, Christ will abundantly bless us. BSB BSB: I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ.
30 UDB Because we belong to our Lord Jesus Christ and because the Spirit of God causes us to love each other, I urge you all that you help me by fervently praying to God for me. BSB BSB: Now I urge you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to join me in my struggle by praying to God for me.
31 UDB Pray that God will protect me from the unbelieving Jews while I am in Judea. And pray that the believers in Jerusalem will be glad to receive the money that I am bringing to them. BSB BSB: Pray that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my service in Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints there,
32 UDB Pray for these things so that God may be pleased for me to come to you, and so that I may be able to rest among you—and you rest with me—for a while. BSB BSB: so that by God’s will I may come to you with joy and together with you be refreshed.
33 UDB I pray that God, who causes us to have peace, will be with all of you and will help you. May it be so. BSB BSB: The God of peace be with all of you. Amen.
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