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Romans 15

3 Paul exhorteth them to support & love one another by the example of Christ, 9 And by the only mercy of God which is the cause of salvation both of the one and the other. 14 He shows his zeal toward them, & the Church, 30 And requireth the same of them.
1.We which are strong, ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
2.Therefore let every man please his neighbour in that that is good to aedification.
3.For Christ also would not please himself, but as it is written, *The rebukes of them which rebuke thee, fell bon me.
4.For whatsoever things are written aforetime, are written for our learning, that we through patience, and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.
5.Now the God of cpatience and consolation give you that ye be *likeminded one towards another, according to Christ Jesus,
6.That ye may with one mind, and with one mouth may praise God even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
7.Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the dglory of God.
8.Now I say, that Jesus Christ was a eminister of the circumcision, for the ftruth of God, to confirm the promise made unto the fathers.
9.And let the Gentiles praise God for his mercy, as it is written, *For this cause I will confess thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy Name.
10.And again he saith, *Rejoice, ye Gentiles with his people.
11.And again, *Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles, and laud ye him, all people together.
12.And again Esaias saith, *There shalbe a root of Jesse, and ghe that shall rise to reign over hthe Gentiles, in him shall the Gentiles trust.
13.Now the God of hope fill you with all joy, and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope through the power of the holie Ghost.
14.And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, and filled with all knowledge, and are able to admonish one another.
15.Nevertheless brethren, I have somewhat boldly after a sort written unto you, as one that putteth you in remembrance, through the grace that is given me of God,
16.That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ toward the Gentiles, ministering the Gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable ibeing sanctified by the holie Ghost.
17.I have therefore whereof I may rejoice in Christ Jesus in those things which pertain to God.
18.For I dare not kspeak of any thing, which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient in word and deed,
19.With the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God: so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have caused to abound the Gospel of Christ.
20.Yea, so I enforced myself to preach the Gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should have built on another man’s foundation.
21.But as it is written, *To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see him, and they that heard not, shall understand him.
22.Therefore also I have been *oft let to come unto you.
23.But now seeing I have no more place in these quarters, and also have *been desirous many years agone to come unto you.
24.When I shall take my journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, after I have been somewhat filled with your company.
25.But now go I to Jerusalem, to lminister unto the Saints.
26.For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia, to make a certain distribution unto the poor Saints which are at Jerusalem.
27.For it hath pleased them, and their debtors are they: *for if the Gentiles be made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things.
28.When I have therefore performed this, and have msealed them this nfruit, I will pass by you into Spain.
29.*And I know when I come, that I shall come to you with oabundance of the blessing of the Gospel of Christ.
30.Also brethren I beseech you for our Lord Jesus Christ’s sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye *would strive with me by prayers to God for me.
31.That I may be delivered from them which are disobedient in Judea, and that my service which I have to do at Jerusalem, may be paccepted of the Saints,
32.That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed.
33.Thus the *God of peace be with you all. Amen.

Notes

2-a.
To edify, signifies to do all manner duties to our neighbour, either to bring him to Christ, or if he be won, that he may grow from faith to faith: for the faithful are called the temple of God wherein he is resident by his holie Spirit: and these faithful are the stones of the new Jerusalem: that is, the universal Church, Isa. 54, Revel. 21, of the which building Christ is the chief corner stone, Eph.2.20.
3-*.
Psal. 69.9
3-b.
I did so bear them, as if they had been done to me and not my Father.
5-*.
1 Cor. 1.10, Philip 3.16
5-c.
Which is the author of patience.
7-d.
To make us partakers of God’s glory.
8-e.
First to gather the Jews, and then the Gentiles that both might be made one flock.
8-f.
That God might be known true.
9-*.
2 Sam. 22.50, Psal. 18.49
10-*.
Deut. 32.43
11-*.
Psal. 117.1
12-*.
Isa. 11.10
12-g.
Which is Christ who did spring as a young bud out of the dry and dead root.
12-h.
Then seeing he took both the Jews and Gentiles to his Father’s glory, they ought by his example to love together.
16-i.
The minister offers up the people to God by the Gospel.
18-k.
God gave him such ample occasions to set forth his excellent works that he had done by him, that the Apostle need not to seek any other thing to boast upon.
21-*.
Isa. 52.15
22-*.
Chap. 1.13, 1 Thess. 2.17
23-*.
Chap. 1.10
25-l.
Which was to carry the alms.
27-*.
1 Cor. 9.11
28-m.
I shall faithfully leave it with them, and as it were sealed most surely.
28-n.
Alms is the fruit of faith and charity.
29-*.
Chap. 1.11
29-o.
His coming shalbe profitable unto them: for God will give him abundant knowledge of Divine mysteries to communicate unto them.
30-*.
2 Cor. 1.11
31-p.
He feared lest slanderous tongues would have made his message either odious, or less acceptable.
33-*.
Isa. 9.6