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For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual things, they are indebted to minister to them also in material things. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/15-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>Therefore, when I have finished this, and have put my seal on this fruit of theirs, I will go on by way of you to Spain. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/15-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/15-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>Now I urge you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God for me, <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/15-31.htm" target="_top"><b>31</b></a></span>that I may be rescued from those who are disobedient in Judea, and <i>that</i> my service for Jerusalem may prove acceptable to the saints; <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/15-32.htm" target="_top"><b>32</b></a></span>so that I may come to you in joy by the will of God and find <i>refreshing</i> rest in your company. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/15-33.htm" target="_top"><b>33</b></a></span>Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/romans/15.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />but now, having no more any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come unto you,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/romans/15.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />But now having no more place in these countries, and having a great desire these many years past to come unto you, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/romans/15.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />But now, having no longer place in these regions, and having great desire to come to you these many years,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/romans/15.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />but now, having no more any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come unto you,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/romans/15.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />But now having no more place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come to you;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/romans/15.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />But now, as there is no more unoccupied ground in this part of the world, and I have for years past been eager to pay you a visit,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/romans/15.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />but now, no longer having any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come to you,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/romans/15.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> and now, no longer having place in these parts, and having a longing to come unto you for many years,<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/december_20_that_i_should.htm">December 20. "That I Should be the Minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, Ministering the Gospel of God" (Rom. xv. 16). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the Gospel of God" (Rom. xv. 16). This is a very beautiful and practical conception of missionary work. There is a great difference in being consecrated to our God. We may be consecrated to our work and consecrated to our God. We may be consecrated and fitted to do missionary work, and utterly fail, if He should call us to do something different. But when we are consecrated to Him, we shall be ready for anything He may require <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/december_20_that_i_should.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson—</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/may_23_the_fulness_of.htm">May 23. "The Fulness of the Blessing of the Gospel of Christ" (Rom. xv. 29). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"The fulness of the blessing of the Gospel of Christ" (Rom. xv. 29). Many Christians fail to see these blessings as they are centered in Him. They want to get the blessing of salvation, but that is not the Christ. They want to get the blessing of His grace to help, but that is not Him. They want to get answered prayer from Him to work for Him. You might have all that and not have the blessing of Christ Himself. A great many people are attached rather to the system of doctrine. They say, "Yes, I have <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/may_23_the_fulness_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson—</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/july_13_even_christ_pleased.htm">July 13. "Even Christ Pleased not Himself" (Rom. xv. 3). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Even Christ pleased not Himself" (Rom. xv. 3). Let this be a day of self-forgetting ministry for Christ and others. Let us not once think of being ministered unto, but say ever with Him: "I am among you as He that doth serve." Let us not drag our burdens through the day, but drop all our loads of care and be free to carry His yoke and His burden. Let us make the happy exchange, giving ours and taking His. Let the covenant be: "Thou shalt abide for Me, I also for thee." So shall we lose our heaviest <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/july_13_even_christ_pleased.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson—</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/september_10_wherefore_receive_ye.htm">September 10. "Wherefore, Receive Ye one Another as Christ Also Received Us, to the Glory of God" (Rom. xv. 7). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Wherefore, receive ye one another as Christ also received us, to the glory of God" (Rom. xv. 7). This is a sublime principle, and it will give sublimity to life. It is stated elsewhere in similar language, "Whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus." This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men. "What would Jesus do?" is a simple question which will settle every difficulty, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/september_10_wherefore_receive_ye.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson—</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/romans_corinthians_to_ii_corinthians_chap_v/joy_and_peace_in_believing.htm">Joy and Peace in Believing</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'The God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.'--ROMANS xv. 13. With this comprehensive and lofty petition the Apostle closes his exhortation to the factions in the Roman Church to be at unity. The form of the prayer is moulded by the last words of a quotation which he has just made, which says that in the coming Messiah 'shall the Gentiles hope.' But the prayer itself is not an instance of being led away by a word--in <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/romans_corinthians_to_ii_corinthians_chap_v/joy_and_peace_in_believing.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Romans, Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/romans_corinthians_to_ii_corinthians_chap_v/two_fountains_one_stream.htm">Two Fountains, one Stream</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'That we, through patience and comfort of the Scriptures, might have hope.... 13. The God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope.'--ROMANS xv. 4, 13. There is a river in Switzerland fed by two uniting streams, bearing the same name, one of them called the 'white,' one of them the 'grey,' or dark. One comes down from the glaciers, and bears half-melted snow in its white ripple; the other flows through a lovely valley, and is discoloured by its earth. They <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/romans_corinthians_to_ii_corinthians_chap_v/two_fountains_one_stream.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Romans, Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/latimer/sermons_on_the_card_and_other_discourses/a_sermon_of_the_reverend.htm">A Sermon of the Reverend Father Master Hugh Latimer, Preached in the Shrouds at St. Paul's Church in London, on the Eighteenth Day of January, Anno 1548. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Quaeunque scripta sunt ad nostram doctrinam scripta sunt.--Rom. xv. 4. "All things which are written, are written for our erudition and knowledge. All things that are written in God's book, in the Bible book, in the book of the holy scripture, are written to be our doctrine." I told you in my first sermon, honourable audience, that I purposed to declare unto you two things. The one, what seed should be sown in God's field, in God's plough land; and the other, who should be the sowers: that is <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/latimer/sermons_on_the_card_and_other_discourses/a_sermon_of_the_reverend.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Hugh Latimer—</span><span class="citation2">Sermons on the Card and Other Discourses</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_1_1855/the_power_of_the_holy.htm">The Power of the Holy Ghost</a><br></span><span class="snippet">We shall look at the power of the Holy Ghost in three ways this morning. First, the outward and visible displays of it; second, the inward and spiritual manifestations of it; and third, the future and expected works thereof. The power of the Spirit will thus, I trust, be made clearly present to your souls. I. First, then, we are to view the power of the Spirit in the OUTWARD AND VISIBLE DISPLAYS OF IT. The power of the Sprit has not been dormant; it has exerted itself. Much has been done by the Spirit <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_1_1855/the_power_of_the_holy.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 1: 1855</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_1_1855/the_god_of_peace.htm">The God of Peace</a><br></span><span class="snippet">I. First of all, the title. Mars amongst the heathens was called the god of war; Janus was worshipped in periods of strife and bloodshed; but our God Jehovah styles himself not the God of war, but the God of peace. Although he permits ware in this world, sometimes for necessary and useful purposes; although he superintends them, and has even styled himself the Lord, mighty in battle, yet his holy mind abhors bloodshed and strife; his gracious spirit loves not to see men slaughtering one another, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_1_1855/the_god_of_peace.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 1: 1855</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/macduff/the_mind_of_jesus/seventh_day_unselfishness.htm">Seventh Day. Unselfishness. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"For even Christ pleased not Himself."--Rom. xv. 8. Too legibly are the characters written on the fallen heart and a fallen world--"All seek their own!" Selfishness is the great law of our degenerated nature. When the love of God was dethroned from the soul, self vaulted into the vacant seat, and there, in some one of its Proteus shapes, continues to reign. Jesus stands out for our imitation a grand solitary exception in the midst of a world of selfishness. His entire life was one abnegation of <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/macduff/the_mind_of_jesus/seventh_day_unselfishness.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John R. Macduff—</span><span class="citation2">The Mind of Jesus</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/murray/the_ministry_of_intercession/seventh_day_for_the_power.htm">Seventh Day for the Power of the Holy Spirit on Ministers</a><br></span><span class="snippet">WHAT TO PRAY.--For the Power of the Holy Spirit on Ministers "I beseech you that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me."--ROM. xv. 30. "He will deliver us; ye also helping together by your supplication on our behalf."--2 COR. i. 10, 11. What a great host of ministers there are in Christ's Church. What need they have of prayer. What a power they might be, if they were all clothed with the power of the Holy Ghost. Pray definitely for this; long for it. Think of your own minister, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/murray/the_ministry_of_intercession/seventh_day_for_the_power.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Andrew Murray—</span><span class="citation2">The Ministry of Intercession</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/romans/15-23.htm">Romans 15:23 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/romans/15-23.htm">Romans 15:23 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/romans/15-23.htm">Romans 15:23 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/romans/15-23.htm">Romans 15:23 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/romans/15-23.htm">Romans 15:23 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/romans/15-23.htm">Romans 15:23 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/romans/15-23.htm">Romans 15:23 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../romans/15-22.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Romans 15:22"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Romans 15:22" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../romans/15-24.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Romans 15:24"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Romans 15:24" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/romans/15-23.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>