For I do not desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, lest you be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

Now I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,

Now concerning spiritual [gifts], brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant.

For we do not desire you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia: that we were burdened beyond measure, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life.

Now we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, concerning those who have died, lest you be sorrowful as those who have no hope.

But now no longer having a place in these regions, and having a longing to come to you for many years,

But now I am traveling to Jerusalem ministering to the saints.

For they thought it good, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles shared in spiritual things, they are obligated also to minister to them in material things.

When these things were fulfilled, Paul resolved in his spirit, having gone through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, "After I have been there, I must also see Rome."

And in this confidence I intended to come to you earlier, that you might have a second benefit,

and through you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and by you to be sent on to Judea.

For this reason I also have been hindered many times from coming to you.

Now when they had gone through Phrygia and the Galatian region, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit from speaking the word in Asia,

having come to Mysia they attempted to go to Bithynia, but the Spirit did not permit them.

For from you the word of the Lord has resounded, not only in Macedonia and in Achaia, but also in every place. Your faith toward God has gone forth, so that we have no need to say anything.

Therefore we desired to come to you--I, Paul, time and again--but Satan hindered us.

For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains [will continue] until one arises from out of [the] midst.

they that are coming are the children of Jacob. Israel shall bud and blossom, and the world shall be filled with his fruit.

And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit unto eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

Most assuredly I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.

You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you may ask the Father in My name He may give to you.

which has come to you, just as also in all the world, and is bearing fruit and growing, just as also among you, from the day which you heard and fully knew the grace of God in truth;

Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit which is increasing to your account.

For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ did not work out through me, in word and deed, for the obedience of [the] Gentiles--

And so eagerly striving to evangelize not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon the foundation of another,

Now arriving and gathering the church together, they related all that God had done with them, and that He had opened the door of faith for the Gentiles.

Then all the multitude stopped speaking and listened to Barnabas and Paul telling as many signs and wonders as God had done among the Gentiles through them.

And having greeted them, he reported one by one those things which God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

If I am not an apostle to others, yet indeed I am to you. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and making known through us the fragrance of His knowledge in every place.

But we will not boast beyond limits, but according to the measure of the sphere [of influence] which God assigned us as a measure, to reach even as far as you.

not boasting beyond the limits in the labors of others, but having hope, that as your faith is increased, we shall be greatly enlarged by you according to our sphere [of influence],

For they themselves report about us what kind of entrance we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,

and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, Jesus, who delivers us from the coming wrath.

Because of this we also give thanks to God unceasingly, so that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you received not the word of men, but just as it truly is, the word of God, which also is at work in you who believe.

For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because you suffered the same things from your fellow countrymen, just as also they did by the Jews,

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the proclamation might be fulfilled, and all the Gentiles might hear, and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.